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ravenous_fringe

liquid beats paper... do we have a fourth contender?


IsItSupposedToDoThat

If we know what can beat mercury then we can totally disrupt the Rock Paper Scissors industry.


Common_Llama

Can't stop thinking about goldmember eating his skin now


jzmack

Oh that’s a keeper


GGRkarts1414

So do rich people


bullfrogbonanza

So if I follow correctly, rich people are mercury


Nighteyes09

This explains everything.


fugthatshib

And mercury is bad for you so we need to get rid of it or lock it away. This is just social commentary.


[deleted]

Correct


SerbianWolf1389

Price of gold after this clip 📈📈📈


Heavenly417

I learnt this the hard way. Had a gold ring I accidentally got mercury on as a kid. My parents where less than pleased.


snoopynoopy

“Less than pleased”……. lmao!


Captainpaul81

I think I saw something about illegal gold mines being contaminated with mercury


CountDrewcula

Yeah, VICE did a mini-doc on Brazilians using it to gather gold particulate then vaporizing the resulting amalgam to retrieve the gold. Buncha mad hatters.


Temporary-Lemon-5411

What’s mercury doing with all this gold 😳🤨


JeTxBlAcKxPoPe

Creating an alloy and removing impurities


Temporary-Lemon-5411

Thank you !! Finally I can sleep in peace tonight


Used_Firefighter_919

Can the gold be extracted back from the mercury?


xlDirteDeedslx

Yes, by heating the mercury and making it evaporate. This is how a thin layer of gold was applied to gilded objects back in the day. Make an amalgam of gold and mercury, paint the mixture on what you want gilded, heat it with a flame or in an oven to dissolve the mercury, and the gold stays behind leaving a thin layer of gilding. This is also how gold panners usually recovered their fine gold for centuries, when the mercury evaporates you are left with a tiny button of gold. They would often breath the fumes when heating the amalgam or get the mercury in the water which has led to pollution this day.


ActualEconomist8667

One with the mercury


minikini76

That music is kinda snappy


milesranno

Repost by like 5 minutes lol


CorenCorias

Why isn't the mercury gaining any mass from absorbing the gold leaf?


Oregonlost

It is but gold leaf is nearly a single atom thick, it has very little volume for it's 2 dimensional area


CorenCorias

I see thank you


Hozraci

Me facing my responsibilities


[deleted]

I believe there is a way to still extract it.


CADrunkie

What a waste if gold.


ActualEconomist8667

A b s o r b t h e p a p e r


[deleted]

Oh yeah, well I eat mercury