Does Hg dissolve Au?

Subject: Does Hg dissolve Au? Sun Jul 28, 2013 10:55 pm

You be the judge
http://silverprospector.com/assaying/au-hg-amalgamation.html

Number of posts : 213 Registration date : 2013-07-06

Pray wrote:: You be the judge
http://silverprospector.com/assaying/au-hg-amalgamation.html

oh wow. that is a very interesting piece. Makes the mind question.

"When dissolving mercury there is what I call a somewhat antiseptic odor, however, this time and with a little heat there was an odd, indescribable non-offensive odor."

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Nothing new for alchemy. this poor people perhaps in 500, 5000 years or never understand this.

Number of posts : 360 Registration date : 2013-05-01

Excellent. Somebody asked me about "opening" gold. Those picts are an excellent example of this in action ! cheers

It is the ability to dissolve gold that makes mercury ideal for "opening" gold without corrosive acids or heat burning the delicate seed in gold. This is the whole functionality of the flamel path.

If you repeatedly dissolve the gold in mercury and then distill it back out, the gold will form smaller and smaller particles each time.

Eventually you get a muddy brown powder and then a red dust which is extremely fine gold. Nicolas Flamel was not only exceedingly lucky but also briliantly clever.