If you want your mercury to look all shiny like the Terminator, try adhesive tape. Just keep stirring the mercury with duct tape folded over in a V to make it stiff. The scum sticks to the tape but the mercury doesn't. It takes some stirring and changing out new pieces of tape as the tape gets dirty. I have over 2 lbs of mercury, used double stick carpet tape in the bottom of a cheap plastic cup and stirred with regular tape as well. It took about 30 minutes as my mercury was super dirty.
I had a baster I bought at a local grocery store, well, a marinade injector needle. I cut the tip off with tin snips, so there were tiny holes i the end of the needle part, stuck it in the mercury, and sucked it up into the injector. The mercury source deflates like a balloon, basically leaving the scum on the outside. You would lose some of your mercury, but what you suck out is perfect.
You can try to make a simple casting from this mercury by freezing it with dry ice (+ acetone as heat exchanger) or better with little amount of liquid nitrogen. A simple clay mould would do. I always wanted to do a casting but I dont have that much mercury.
i wonder what filter material would work best; i think one could coat half-pipes of some sort with the filter material, e.g. carpet, coffee filter, wool (with static electricity maybe), and see where the dust etc. gets caught up best when running the mercury down the half-pipes... just my idea, not sure how that would work out.
I thought maybe filling a container upto the top and kind of slicing the convex meniscus off with something might help, most of the crap should float on the mecury.
Maybe getting an old salt/pepper shaker and building a filter of somekind in the end with the holes might help, turn the entire thing upside down and let it filter out.
YEah sure... Like A Thermometer Has That much Mercury IN IT ! LOL !!
PEFANIS1 9 months ago
If you want your mercury to look all shiny like the Terminator, try adhesive tape. Just keep stirring the mercury with duct tape folded over in a V to make it stiff. The scum sticks to the tape but the mercury doesn't. It takes some stirring and changing out new pieces of tape as the tape gets dirty. I have over 2 lbs of mercury, used double stick carpet tape in the bottom of a cheap plastic cup and stirred with regular tape as well. It took about 30 minutes as my mercury was super dirty.
JunkmanJim 1 year ago
I had a baster I bought at a local grocery store, well, a marinade injector needle. I cut the tip off with tin snips, so there were tiny holes i the end of the needle part, stuck it in the mercury, and sucked it up into the injector. The mercury source deflates like a balloon, basically leaving the scum on the outside. You would lose some of your mercury, but what you suck out is perfect.
wrnchhead76 2 years ago
were did you get all that?
i just have a drop the size of a dime
from a thermomiter
calvinw42 2 years ago
You can try to make a simple casting from this mercury by freezing it with dry ice (+ acetone as heat exchanger) or better with little amount of liquid nitrogen. A simple clay mould would do. I always wanted to do a casting but I dont have that much mercury.
LechuCzechu 2 years ago
well, that worked rather well!
i wonder what filter material would work best; i think one could coat half-pipes of some sort with the filter material, e.g. carpet, coffee filter, wool (with static electricity maybe), and see where the dust etc. gets caught up best when running the mercury down the half-pipes... just my idea, not sure how that would work out.
bionerd23 2 years ago
Interesting idea.
I thought maybe filling a container upto the top and kind of slicing the convex meniscus off with something might help, most of the crap should float on the mecury.
Maybe getting an old salt/pepper shaker and building a filter of somekind in the end with the holes might help, turn the entire thing upside down and let it filter out.
TheCynicalAtheist 2 years ago
hmm, that may work, but i fear the holes are too small.
i wonder what would happen if you'd try and filter it through very clean, but fine-grained sand...
bionerd23 2 years ago
then again, if the sand stuff is too dense, i guess it'd just stay on top and that's it. ^_^
bionerd23 2 years ago
Could use presure to force it out.
I was thinking like some kind of upside down salt shaker/buchner flask type contraption!
TheCynicalAtheist 2 years ago
Thanks this may help in the future, i would have thought it might rip filter paper though.
TheCynicalAtheist 2 years ago