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Mercury Use and Recovering Gold from Amalgam information and questions
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<blockquote data-quote="AtomRat" data-source="post: 517491" data-attributes="member: 3111"><p>Something that is skipped over in that video he made, was that he is talking about clean elemental mercury. Quite different to what we may pan out a creek or even find in a thermostat. So yes, elemental mercury is safe, but not quite so when its certain amalgamates or has impurities. </p><p></p><p>In the safety world of using retorts, they should still be used within a fume hood as any small leaking vapours, will condense and drop somewhere within the room. (As cody explains in mercury spill/cleanup vid). Outdoors is just the next closest option- so those vapours don't stay inside your house/shed, revapourising and condensing forever. Only way to know if you had pure clean mercury, would be buying lab grade. </p><p></p><p>But yes, certainly it has safer uses like dental amalgams, or mercurochrome</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AtomRat, post: 517491, member: 3111"] Something that is skipped over in that video he made, was that he is talking about clean elemental mercury. Quite different to what we may pan out a creek or even find in a thermostat. So yes, elemental mercury is safe, but not quite so when its certain amalgamates or has impurities. In the safety world of using retorts, they should still be used within a fume hood as any small leaking vapours, will condense and drop somewhere within the room. (As cody explains in mercury spill/cleanup vid). Outdoors is just the next closest option- so those vapours don't stay inside your house/shed, revapourising and condensing forever. Only way to know if you had pure clean mercury, would be buying lab grade. But yes, certainly it has safer uses like dental amalgams, or mercurochrome [/QUOTE]
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