Mad Hatter pt2

[WhaleStress]

also, i arrived at this video because i have an idea/invention based around Hg (im an engineer) message me if you want to hear it!

[WhaleStress]

what happens when a lazer pointer hits mercury? will it be reflected partially or completely?

[kingdomheartsss]

dam..... thats pretty....making something that uses that lol

[stanzomanyy]

How do you charge up the mecury and get it to spin with out nothing going to it? What do you use to charge it up with?

[harrisgc1]

Mercury is diamagnetic.

[TeravoltOrg]

Also, as to why it was bubbling, I assume you used saltwater in your HHO cell. What happened was the salt decomposed and dissolved in the Hg; made sodium amalgam. When sodium amalgam is added to water, the sodium reacts and releases hydrogen bubbles.

[TeravoltOrg]

The mercury isn't ferromagnetic, nor paramagnetic. What is happening is the strong moving magnet is inducing an electric current in the drop of Hg, and that current is causing the Hg to become an electromagnet. Look up lenz effect.

[gijane5353]

WHEN YOU MOVE THE MAGNET ACROSS IT YOUR CREATING A MAGNETIC FIELD THROUGH INDUCTION THUS THE MERCURY REACTS TO MAGNETIC FIELDS

[crob227]

@gijane5353 so you have seen this done or done it yourself?,,,mercuryis usually a non ferrous metal without charging the mercury i cant get no reaction with the magnet.thanks for the comment though.

[guitarmastero16]

hey did that drop of mercury change color when charged in that cup of salt water?

[crob227]

@guitarmastero16 yes it changed colors, almost the way a earth battery does when using the energy from the copperor sink, like it decays,, sorry it took so long to reply, i didnt recieve this message.

[MrFlyboy57]

@crob227

It looked like mercury oxide.

[crob227]

@MrFlyboy57 yes it does...

[CatfishShotgun]

This should get more views.

[jzlACoSTE]

how do i kno wtht it isn't gallium?

[crob227]

@jzlACoSTE How do i kno its not gallium??????? Not to be a jerk but arent the charecteristic of gallium the same?

[jzlACoSTE]

@crob227 gallium is magnetic

[bobdull420]

@crob227 Gallium will stick to surfaces whereas mercury does not. In the beginning of the video it shows that it is obviously not gallium.

[overunitydotcom]

Hmm,

great experiment,

but be careful not to drop

the mercury in your bedroom or in your kid´s room

as it will gas out over time and the gas is very poisoneous and dangerous for your health.

Strange, that it jumps from one electrode to the other, if you release the voltage.

Do you also have a coil in series so it will get a kickback voltage ?

Many thanks.

Regards, Stefan.

[SmartScarecrow]

the scum is mercury oxide ... it too has interesting properties to examine so do not wasted it ... but be careful about skin contact with it ... also not a good idea to breath the oxide vapors ...

I have heard rumors, that if you can get that little ball of mercury spinning fast enough to climb the sides in torus with properly spaced charges, you might just see some anti gravity effects ... something I read about some German WW2 work ... probably bogus but as long as you are playing ?????

[panzuman]

that is quite interesting

[codemsan]

lol your making it mad! it runs away and yet you charge it again...yay!

cool expiriments by the way, mercury has cool properties

[ignilc]

maybe it has some iron impurities... don't know