TrendTok Hub on Instagram: "The X post by showcases a gold bar dissolving in mercury, amassing 3.8 million views and highlighting the rapid amalgamation process where the metal vanishes into a silvery alloy. This reaction forms a gold-mercury amalgam due to mercury's ability to wet gold's surface and disrupt its atomic lattice, as explained in chemistry resources; the gold can be recovered by heating to evaporate the mercury. Amalgamation has been a traditional gold extraction method since ancie

@crazy_trends08 on Instagram: "This instagram post shares a 24-second video of an Indonesian artisanal miner uncovering a thick yellow mercury-gold amalgam while digging for ore, highlighting the toxic risks over promised riches in informal mining sites. Indonesia's small-scale gold sector relies heavily on mercury amalgamation, a process banned internationally but persistent locally, exposing workers to neurotoxic vapors that cause brain damage and contaminate waterways, per UNODC reports on mi