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Mercury Use and Recovering Gold from Amalgam information and questions
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<blockquote data-quote="Piep" data-source="post: 85013" data-attributes="member: 3017"><p>Yeah, I took it on face value from the pics at first as well. Then I remembered playing with mercury during science classes and learning about it's properties. Remember those old glass thermometers? If you broke one and tried cleaning up whilst wearing gold rings, you'd have a hard time finding someone that could clean up that mess. The stuff would just migrate onto the whole ring and spread out very evenly to cover every bit of gold.</p><p></p><p>Looking at your pic, my guess is you could have lead in your pan, or the mercury has fully covered that flake in the middle and is now so spread out and thin that it appears solid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Piep, post: 85013, member: 3017"] Yeah, I took it on face value from the pics at first as well. Then I remembered playing with mercury during science classes and learning about it's properties. Remember those old glass thermometers? If you broke one and tried cleaning up whilst wearing gold rings, you'd have a hard time finding someone that could clean up that mess. The stuff would just migrate onto the whole ring and spread out very evenly to cover every bit of gold. Looking at your pic, my guess is you could have lead in your pan, or the mercury has fully covered that flake in the middle and is now so spread out and thin that it appears solid. [/QUOTE]
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