Guy creates cup that holds water but is porous to mercury.

In this video we are taking two very nasty and super-hazardous materials, lead and mercury, and alloying them together. This is guaranteed to make every heavy-metal-phobe, cringe in horror. This experiment is based off a paper written in 1952 and is nearly unheard of today. The lead amalgam cup we create is supposed to hold water, but when mercury is poured in it, will leak like a sieve. I deviated from the original paper QUITE a bit yet the results were the same. An “amalgam“ is the