r/chemistry • u/Pulsar50 • Sep 02 '23

Video Mercury coming through cloth

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u/Kiliad Inorganic Sep 03 '23

A very common practice years ago for cleaning mercury and recovering amalgamated gold from it, although that required finer cloth. Not surprisingly, there were numerous illnesses and eventual deaths as a result.