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barley81
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Funkerman23
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I don't know where you found that flask but God has smiled upon you my very lucky friend.Mooning aside I wonder if any more can be had....
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garage chemist
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You could build your own little chlor-alkali plant with all that mercury.
Or react the sodium amalgam with alcohols to make sodium alcoholate solutions, for organic chemistry like malonate ester alkylation or acetoacetate
ester alkylation. Or reduce organic compounds with sodium amalgam in aqueous medium... Lots of possibilities.
Sodium amalgam with 1% Na is solid at room temp already, so reactions with it are always very limited in scale due to the large amounts of mercury
required as a carrier for comparatively small amounts of sodium. You could do Na amalgam reductions on a fair scale with your mercury, and quickly
"recharge" it by electrolysis.
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Endimion17
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^^and make a fucking environmental disaster in his backyard before ending in hospital together with his neighbours . 
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magnus454
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Mercury collection
I have a few ounces of mercury myself, although it's a little contaminated, I've been collecting mercury switches from defunct thermostats, scoring a
line in the side with a triangle file, breaking the end off the tube, and adding it to a glass reagent jar I have.
History is repeating itself.
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MyNameIsUnnecessarilyLong
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Quote: Originally posted by magnus454  | | I have a few ounces of mercury myself, although it's a little contaminated, I've been collecting mercury switches from defunct thermostats, scoring a
line in the side with a triangle file, breaking the end off the tube, and adding it to a glass reagent jar I have. |
A glass reagent botttle, IN TEXAS? *gasp*
Do you have a permit to own that illegal piece of meth-lab grade glassware?!
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grndpndr
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Its a sure thing hard hitting california law banning hobby glassware will make remendous strides against the importation
of crack cocaine, heroin ,maqrijuana and what have you.California citizens can sleep warm/secure in thier beds knowing the state of califirnia Is
extremely serious about the plaque of hobby glassware and the flood of illegal drugs it brings to the state.Imbeciles w/o a clue
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