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The Hive => Newbee Forum => Topic started by: Oxygen on November 19, 2003, 09:13:00 AM

Title: Eliminating Mercury
Post by: Oxygen on November 19, 2003, 09:13:00 AM

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?

Title: non-issue
Post by: hypo on November 19, 2003, 02:11:00 PM

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.

Title: Try it yourself
Post by: politoxicomania on November 20, 2003, 08:02:00 PM

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.
:-)

Title: Hg
Post by: Wargasm on November 21, 2003, 12:25:00 AM

As long as you perform the extractions and washes as per the write up and distill your FB, there won't be any mercury.