Turning mercury into a weird sponge
71,000In this video, I continue my amalgam series and I attempt to make the so-called ammonium amalgam. This was done by combining an ammonium salt with sodium amalgam that I made in a previous video.
References:
• Link to 1865 paper: https://goo.gl/3NVehp
• Sodium amalgam video: • Mixing sodium with mercury
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