Timeline for Is there a method to separate iron from mercury?
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| May 16, 2019 at 19:52 | comment | added | Poutnik | .... but differently. | |
| May 16, 2019 at 19:38 | comment | added | Karl | Well, for physical separation, you can just put a bit of soap water on your mecury and bubble air through it. For chemical separation, mixing with acid and subsequent phase separation might work. The latter however would also work if the metal (say, zinc instead of iron) was dissolvend. | |
| May 16, 2019 at 13:41 | comment | added | Poutnik | @matt_black it could be combination of physical and chemical separation. | |
| May 16, 2019 at 13:38 | comment | added | matt_black | @karl It is relevant that iron doesn't form an amalgam as, if it did, there would be a homogeneous solution and the iron would be hard to separate without something like distillation. Because iron doesn't dissolve in mercury, physical separation is likely to work. | |
| May 16, 2019 at 3:30 | history | edited | Poutnik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 16, 2019 at 2:49 | comment | added | Poutnik | Cleaning mercury surface should be easier than extracting iron from the whole mercury volume. | |
| May 15, 2019 at 19:31 | comment | added | Karl | I say this might work, but what has this got to do with the fact that iron does not form an amalgam? | |
| May 15, 2019 at 15:54 | history | edited | Poutnik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 15, 2019 at 15:39 | history | answered | Poutnik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |