December 2, 2024

Aluminum and mercury

I'm thinking that the dangers of mercury thermometers on aluminum-skinned airplanes has mostly passed us by - both because home mercury thermometers are all but outlawed and have been replaced by digital thermometers and because so little of a commercial airplane is being made out of aluminum at this point.

But the demonstration of the formation of mercury-aluminum amalgam is still really cool to watch.

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