I know THAT feeling all too well raxis.Got about a liter of mercury-laden sludge to clean up and get product out of, after running an amalgam reduction on something I've been working on of late. Spent all night creating it, now I've got to spend a fair while getting rid of it, and reclaiming the mercury content (NOT something I'll let into the environment, and I'm unwilling too, to let it go to municipal toxic waste dump at the tip as well, mainly for the reason that Hg isn't all that cheap, nor are its salts, and as such, given its been reduced to the metal, I plan on recovering it all. Theres enough in there to kill maybe 10-15 people if they were lined up and it portioned out equally, not that I plan on that, but as such it needs to be recovered, that way I can at least recycle the Hg metal to produce more Hg salt (one needs the divalent salts, preferably mercuric chloride, or at a pinch, mercuric nitrate for these amalgam type reductions, and I don't exactly want it just hanging around in a tank until i've 50 liters or so of gunk to deal with to reclaim a few grams of Hg. And to make matters even more fun (sarcasm) its sitting in a highly alkaline, corrosive slop, so its time for double layered, elbow-length gloves, two pairs over each other, since this stuff is bad enough in contact with unbroken skin (potentially fatal), let alone mixed in with a load of caustic slime that would just love to chew a hole in me and make an express delivery.
