Ok. I had a wonderful dream of running through the al-hg amalgam, and extracted with toluene. I washed the toluene with saturated sod. bicarb, and the washes were very clean. I then went to wash with saturated NaCl, but something happened to me that never has. The NaCl layer seperated out to the top but was VERY thick white, and didn't look like it was very happy. I then decided to do an acid base extraction due to possible errors i didn't want to make, but as soon as i mixed 200ml 10%hcl with the toluene, vigorous bubbling began, and the toluene for some reason is miscible with the 10%hcl in h2o? There is no seperation at all...How is this possible, and is there any way for me to save my 20 gram dream? Also there is fine cloudy whiteness at the bottom of the flask not unsimilar to the look when toluene is gassed, is this my good tasting hcl salt or some nasty bi-product?? Please help asap.