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To: ManyMoose who wrote (381839)9/9/2010 9:06:06 PM
From: average joe  Respond to of 793965
 
Old timers would take gold amalgamated with mercury and put into a sliced in half and hollowed out potato. They would tie the potato around with wire and let bake on coals for an hour. The mercury would absorb into the potato and all that was left when opened was gold.