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RA2lover
335 days ago
It's 10% of natural mercury. you're looking into separating it cheaply instead, or at least hope the other naturally occuring isotopes don't cause too many problems.
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BoiledCabbage
335 days ago
If it's that easy to separate from natural mercury then it seems like they could make a fortune just separating it and selling the separated mercury.
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0cf8612b2e1e
335 days ago
Maybe there is not a huge need for isotopically pure mercury so the current price is not reflective of acquisition/manufacturing costs?
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K0balt
335 days ago
Yeah, it’s expensive because nobody needs it so the process is very small scale and essentially a bespoke isotope separation service.
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