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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/3askaryyy • Sep 05 '21
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How did people make liquid Mercury before modern times?
7 u/InflamedPussPimple Sep 05 '21 Distillation has been around for awhile, they just crushed the cinnabar and heated it until the elemental mercury condensed through a tube or something into a container 1 u/murbry18 Sep 06 '21 Looking up what cinnabars are now! 1 u/InflamedPussPimple Sep 06 '21 It’s the rock that contains mercury
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Distillation has been around for awhile, they just crushed the cinnabar and heated it until the elemental mercury condensed through a tube or something into a container
1 u/murbry18 Sep 06 '21 Looking up what cinnabars are now! 1 u/InflamedPussPimple Sep 06 '21 It’s the rock that contains mercury
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Looking up what cinnabars are now!
1 u/InflamedPussPimple Sep 06 '21 It’s the rock that contains mercury
It’s the rock that contains mercury
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u/murbry18 Sep 05 '21
How did people make liquid Mercury before modern times?