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Mercury from Nessler's reagent ???

Dr.Felix Strausser - 25-7-2016 at 07:01

Does anyone happen to know how practical it'd be, to try obtaining elemental mercury from Nessler's reagent in a typical school laboratory? I did try searching for a method [the ubiquitous Google] but no luck, so any ideas?

Metacelsus - 26-7-2016 at 05:15

Electrochemical reduction might work.