ironious Posted October 28, 2008 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted October 28, 2008 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane_alien Posted October 28, 2008 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frosch45 Posted October 28, 2008 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdurg Posted October 29, 2008 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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