The Vespiary
The Hive => Newbee Forum => Topic started by: Oxygen on November 19, 2003, 09:13:00 AM
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If one vacuum distills an impure freebase that may contain small amounts of mercury in the form of almagams and/or salts, could some mercury make its way into the distillate?
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there (practically) isn't any mercury, because
a) it was reduced to the metal and thus was never in your organic phase
b) you conscientiously washed your organic phase.
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U can try it yourself.
A good test is to precipitate Hg as HgS wich is L=1*10E-47.
If u cant see a precipitate u can be sure that no Hg is present.
:-)
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As long as you perform the extractions and washes as per the write up and distill your FB, there won't be any mercury.