simba
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Aluminium amalgam using mercuric acetate?
Has anyone tried it already?
The reason why I am asking it, is because I just don't understand why all documentation on aluminium amalgams use mercuric chloride.
Mercuric acetate is more water soluble than mercuric chloride and should make an even better amalgam with aluminium. I can't see any reason why it
wouldn't work.
If anyone has already tried it, please share your experience.
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This page (http://www.chemicalbook.com/ChemicalProductProperty_EN_CB630...) states that mercuric acetate forms an amalgam with calcium metal. I don't see
anything about Al, though.
[Edited on 15-6-2011 by LanthanumK]
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Yes it works.
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The same website states nothing about mercuric chloride reacting with aluminium, so I don't think this is a matter. I'm just wondering about what
would be this 'yellow insoluble' product it says:
Water soluble. Decomposed by water to form a yellow insoluble product.
Have you tried it already?
[Edited on 16-6-2011 by shivas]
[Edited on 16-6-2011 by shivas]
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A yellow insoluble product could be something like basic mercuric acetate.
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