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

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Define the amalgamation