Subject: Re: Removing mercury from gold, diamond

From: Larry Phillips <[email-masked]>
Date: 19 Jan 1995 08:42:56 GMT

[email-masked] (Daryl Bender) writes:

  > What is the problem here? Is it chemically bonding?

Mercury forms an amalgam with many metals, gold among them. In technical
terms, it is said to be 'a bitch to get the mercury out'.

-larry

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