Sciencemadness Discussion Board - Mercury...again

Mercury...again

urenthesage - 13-4-2018 at 04:55

I find myself with a 100g bottle of mercury metal that I dont need anymore. Market price is 48$/100g, and thats all I want plus shipping. If you are interested, let me know in private what city you live in and Ill get you an exact quote from Canaada Post for shipping. Its illegal to put on a plane, for obvious reasons, so this is restricted to North America unfortunately.

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JJay - 13-4-2018 at 13:46

I'll give you $1.74 for it.

VSEPR_VOID - 13-4-2018 at 14:02

I bid 2.74

urenthesage - 14-4-2018 at 10:40

This isnt EBAY. you can use it or you cant.

XeonTheMGPony - 14-4-2018 at 15:49

I'm still enjoying the 2 pounds I got for 20 bucks! Hope to get more for as cheap!

You may want to include more details fyi as to purity and where You are located goes a long way in making a sale.

urenthesage - 15-4-2018 at 05:45

Its probably technical grade, but mercury is easy to clean. If you want reagent, YOU are going to have to distill it, I wont touch that with a 50000 foot pole. I wish I had known your source, Im losing on this one. Its in Canada.

Vosoryx - 15-4-2018 at 07:19

Canada's a big place. What province?

DrP - 16-4-2018 at 03:14

$3.87

woelen - 16-4-2018 at 04:28

This is quite expensive. I can buy 100 grams of triple-distilled mercury for appr. EUR 20 from a real seller.

XeonTheMGPony - 16-4-2018 at 04:43

Quote: Originally posted by urenthesage

I wish I had known your source,

Old medical offices some even pay me to take it, one point I had a 5 gallon buckets worth

(It may be still sitting in a friends basement for all I know) but after several moves and such it got lost and sadly no longer have contact info

As stated by woelen, and as I hinted that price is too far on the high side you're competing internationally here.

Adding your location will go a long way.

Good luck.

Mr. Rogers - 16-4-2018 at 06:02

Quote: Originally posted by urenthesage

Market price is 48$/100g,

I don't believe you.

MrHomeScientist - 16-4-2018 at 06:10

Quote: Originally posted by XeonTheMGPony

Wait a minute, you had FIVE GALLONS of mercury? And you LOST it??

That's horrifying from both a 'lost a useful reagent' perspective and an 'environmental disaster of nightmarish proportions' perspective.

Edit: 5 gallons of mercury is 259 kilograms, or a little over a quarter ton. Holy hell.

[Edited on 4-16-2018 by MrHomeScientist]

XeonTheMGPony - 16-4-2018 at 09:01

well it will survive the next 3 world wars it was in a rather thick steel container that was well painted then sealed in a 5g bucket that was spray foamed inside (Why I did that? I like things well protected) So it isn't going into the environment till some one finds it and opens it in the next 200 years

I'm more annoyed at the several ounces of gold that is still in it.

Being it was near impossible to move with out allot of effort I'm sure some lucky bastard is having fun with it

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urenthesage - 17-4-2018 at 12:16

Gone. Thanks for the interest. And to Mr rogers, I just typed in mercury price and it came up in bold on google, you can check for yourself.

And Xeon, thanks for that. It gave me some good ideas. Appreciated.

XeonTheMGPony - 17-4-2018 at 13:24

I used an old O2 tank (MC size) made of steel to store the mercury in, you can get small gas sample bottles too that will work well. Just don't use an aluminium tank! lol (They didn't really exist back when I had my big stash)

VSEPR_VOID - 17-4-2018 at 14:28

Quote: Originally posted by XeonTheMGPony

I used an old O2 tank (MC size) made of steel to store the mercury in, you can get small gas sample bottles too that will work well. Just don't use an aluminium tank! lol (They didn't really exist back when I had my big stash)

Big stash? Please continue

Bert - 17-4-2018 at 20:43

Quote: Originally posted by XeonTheMGPony

well it will survive the next 3 world wars it was in a rather thick steel container that was well painted then sealed in a 5g bucket that was spray foamed inside (Why I did that? I like things well protected) So it isn't going into the environment]

Ah. Sounds proof against minor accidents causing a spill. Was it MARKED to communicate the hazard and describe contents? Just in case someone decides to open it with a plasma cutter or cutting torch when the plug is stuck???

And I worry about my little bottle of dental supply Hg, sitting in its little plastic bag, inside a plastic tub (edit: It was free, an older guy moving to hospice gave me his chemicals)... Or the perfectly good fume hood I had no way to move out of a rental property basement and no new place to install when they condoed the joint and kicked me out. (they DID offer to sell me my 1,200 square foot basement apartment. For US $175,000.00 + association fees.). Wonder what the remodeler did with that hood.

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XeonTheMGPony - 18-4-2018 at 03:48

Well the Big words MERCURY spay painted on it + the weight aut to be a big indicator, I considered it a high value resource. back then I had no email, no phone number just my name, so who knows some day it may find its way back to me, but been over 20 years so doubt it

http://www.calibration-gas.com/cylinder-specifications

the steel ones make great small mercury storage cylinders.

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DrP - 18-4-2018 at 05:21

Quote: Originally posted by XeonTheMGPony

well it will survive the next 3 world wars ...

I'm more annoyed at the several ounces of gold that is still in it.

Being it was near impossible to move with out allot of effort I'm sure some lucky bastard is having fun with it

[Edited on 16-4-2018 by XeonTheMGPony]

Three? world wars?

A few ounces of gold.. 8-) that's a fair bit. I have a small amount of mercury - I was hoping to try making a gold amalgam sometime, but still have never done it.

XeonTheMGPony - 18-4-2018 at 06:45

Well over all society seems to be getting dumber, the neo-marxist left want to hide away history, and when one forgets the past they are doomed to repeat it.

So 3 may be a bit of a stretch but there most likely be at minimum two based on human stupidity, less it plays out like startreck!

DrP - 18-4-2018 at 07:28

Quote: Originally posted by XeonTheMGPony

Well over all society seems to be getting dumber, the neo-marxist left want to hide away history, and when one forgets the past they are doomed to repeat it.

So 3 may be a bit of a stretch but there most likely be at minimum two based on human stupidity, less it plays out like startreck!

Well - there ARE 2 for sure that we define in the history books as 'World' wars. They would be 'World War 1' and 'World War 2'. There have been many other wars before and since... but none that society/historians have defined as 'World' wars. With the current bunch of idiots in charge all over the world who knows where this Syrian conflict will lead. :-( Maybe WWIII is currently underway - nearly everyone is involved anyway.

PirateDocBrown - 18-4-2018 at 09:47

I once had my dentist beg me to take his off his hands.

VSEPR_VOID - 18-4-2018 at 10:07

Is that a potential source of mercury? Go to enough dentists and maybe you will get lucky.

fusso - 28-4-2018 at 13:11

Quote: Originally posted by XeonTheMGPony

I'm still enjoying the 2 pounds I got for 20 bucks! Hope to get more for as cheap!

You may want to include more details fyi as to purity and where You are located goes a long way in making a sale.

Where do you live to have such a great price?!

SWIM - 28-4-2018 at 13:31

I'm absolutely SURE that mercury will survive the next 3 world wars.

Because after the next world war any survivors who try to open that canister will probably be trying to do it with rocks and pointed sticks.

They'll probably end up worshiping the indestructible and nearly immovable container as a deity which they will no doubt call Mercury.

At least it's safer than worshiping a cobalt bomb the way they did in one of those Planet Of The Apes movies.

Pay no attention to the picture.
I have no friggin idea how it got there, and when I tried to remove it with the edit function it came back like Banquo's ghost.

(But if anybody can tell me what the thing on the left is I'll be most grateful.)

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LearnedAmateur - 28-4-2018 at 15:16

Reminds me of the video game ‘Fallout 3’ which I used to play loads, there was a cult called the Children of Atom who worshipped an unexploded nuclear bomb, which the town of Megaton was built around. Bonus, you can choose whether to detonate it or not, instantly killing every resident to cleanse the town of sin.

MrHomeScientist - 3-5-2018 at 09:44

Really it was just to cleanse the wasteland of an eyesore for Mr. Tenpenny.