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Interesting indeed. I didn't know that sodium amalgam could be made by electrolyzing aqueous NaCl! I may never buy sodium again...
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I was thinking same. I wonder if the mercury could be removed from the amalgam by distillation?
The single most important condition for a successful synthesis is good mixing - Nicodem
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I presume so, but using the amalgam "as is" seems equally viable.
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Yes, of course. But here the object is simply to recycle both the mercury AND the Na (as NaOH), not to prepare Na metal.
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