In this video we are taking two very nasty and super-hazardous materials, lead and mercury, and alloying them together. This is also called an “amalgam”. This is guaranteed to make every heavy-metal-phobe, cringe in horror.
This experiment is based off a paper written in 1952 and is nearly unheard of today.
The lead amalgam cup we create is supposed to hold water, but when mercury is poured in it, will leak like a sieve. I deviated from the original paper QUITE a bit yet the results were the same.
An “amalgam” is the term for any metal that is combined or alloyed with mercury to form a new compound. The cup we create is hydrophobic, but allows mercury to seep through it.
This idea was submitted by a science teacher, Mr. Beisel who told me he shows my mercury videos in his class to his students. There’s no compliment better than that!
