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Offline takamura

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Why Hg can dissolve many metals?
« on: September 12, 2007, 01:36:43 PM »
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Re: Why Hg can dissolve many metals?
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2007, 01:20:02 AM »
Many metals in liquid state dissolve other metals - these mixtures of metals are called alloys. Amalgams are nothing else than alloys of mercury.
see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galinstan
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