ironious Posted October 28, 2008 Posted October 28, 2008 What happens when you put mercury and aluminum together? I read that ist bad but as an experiment, I put a small blob of mercury on some aluminum foil and nothing happened.
YT2095 Posted October 28, 2008 Posted October 28, 2008 it Should react but it won`t until the thin oxide layer is removed first. try scratching the alu that`s under the drop of mercury with a piece of glass, that should help get it started.
insane_alien Posted October 28, 2008 Posted October 28, 2008 it will dissolve the aluminium. try scratching the aluminium foil with a needle, preferably through the blob of mercury to remove the oxide layer to speed things up a little.
frosch45 Posted October 28, 2008 Posted October 28, 2008 Just be sure you don't use chemical cleaners like sodium hydroxide because this will eat up your aluminum as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gihAT6eXaoc I thought that was pretty cool
jdurg Posted October 29, 2008 Posted October 29, 2008 Yeah, there's actually a LOT of really neat chemistry videos on YouTube. These were demonstrations you used to only be able to see if you privilged enough to have a good teacher in high school.
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