In this video, I will be extracting and refining mercury metal from mercury sulfide (cinnabar). This is a chemical method, which is safer than the typical heated one.

It is a followup to this video:    • Extracting mercury from contaminated ...  

This process was developed by Plante1999 from the Sciencemadness forums (https://goo.gl/W2LdWM)

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Mercury videos:
• Mercury thiocyanate (Pharaoh's Serpent):    • Making Mercury Thiocyanate (The Phara...  
• Old serpent demo:    • The Pharaoh's Serpent demonstration  
• Pharaoh's Serpent in 4K:    • Making the Pharaoh's Serpent (4K)  
• Mercuric chloride:    • Making Mercuric Chloride (a very toxi...  


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