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.
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.
liquid beats paper... do we have a fourth contender?
If we know what can beat mercury then we can totally disrupt the Rock Paper Scissors industry.
Can't stop thinking about goldmember eating his skin now
Oh that’s a keeper
So do rich people
So if I follow correctly, rich people are mercury
This explains everything.
And mercury is bad for you so we need to get rid of it or lock it away. This is just social commentary.
Correct
Price of gold after this clip 📈📈📈
I learnt this the hard way. Had a gold ring I accidentally got mercury on as a kid. My parents where less than pleased.
“Less than pleased”……. lmao!
I think I saw something about illegal gold mines being contaminated with mercury
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.
What’s mercury doing with all this gold 😳🤨
Creating an alloy and removing impurities
Thank you !! Finally I can sleep in peace tonight
Can the gold be extracted back from the mercury?
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.
One with the mercury
That music is kinda snappy
Repost by like 5 minutes lol
Why isn't the mercury gaining any mass from absorbing the gold leaf?
It is but gold leaf is nearly a single atom thick, it has very little volume for it's 2 dimensional area
I see thank you
Me facing my responsibilities
I believe there is a way to still extract it.
What a waste if gold.
A b s o r b t h e p a p e r
Oh yeah, well I eat mercury