Turning mercury into a weird sponge

2019-03-29

[public] 1.50M views, 72.3K likes, 503 dislikes audio only

In 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: /youtube/video/SoOyaDWIoMA

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