This is a topic I find very interesting, but I'm afraid I don't have much to contribute. Does your XRF provide a full-depth measurement, or is it...
Did it work out well? I've bought a fair amount of lab and test equipment on eBay over the years, but analytical balances seem so fragile and...
Ah, here's the thread where I linked to the scales I got. 30x0.001g and 300x0.01g. I use the 300-gram scale a lot more than the other one -- the...
Maybe. But neither it, nor the rest of your paragraph, are relevant to the topic of this thread. And when your first two posts here are hawking...
If you're buying on eBay, get a scale that goes down to hundredths of a gram at least. I bought two scales there, one with .01g resolution and one...
Yep. It's not the case that heating the alloy above mercury's boiling point causes all the mercury to explode out at once. You can think of an...
Well, to be picky, the sulfur oxidizes the mercury to make mercuric sulfide. It's very different from amalgamation, althought the end result is...
I wanted mercury since earliest childhood, when the "chemical magic" and "science fun" books were full of experiments that called for it. About...
On the other hand, I'm irritated by junk-silver sellers who think I should pay melt plus 10% plus shipping on a lot so they can get melt value...
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