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Thd ore consist of copper sulphide intermixed with clay particles.Give an example of amalgum

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An amalgam is an alloy of mercury with another metal. Almost all metals can form amalgams with mercury, the notable exceptions being iron, platinum, tungsten, and tantalum. Silver-mercury amalgams are important in dentistry, and gold-mercuryamalgam is used in the extraction of goldfrom ore.



Aluminium amalgam

Aluminium amalgam may be prepared by either grinding aluminium pellets or wire in mercury, or by allowing aluminium wire or foil to react with a solution of mercuric chloride. This amalgam is used as a reagent to reduce compounds, such as the reduction of imines to amines.



Sodium amalgam

Sodium amalgam is produced as a byproduct of the chloralkali process and used as an important reducing agent in organic and inorganic chemistry. With water, it decomposes into concentrated sodium hydroxide solution, hydrogen and mercury, which can then return to the chloralkali process anew. If absolutely water-free alcohol is used instead of water, an alkoxide of sodium is produced instead of the alkali solution.

Zinc amalgam

Zinc amalgam finds use in organic synthesis (e.g., for the Clemmensen reduction).

It is the reducing agent in the Jones reductor, used in analytical chemistry.



Dental amalgam

Dentistry has used alloys of mercury with metals such as silver, copper, indium tin and zinc.

Amalgam is an "excellent and versatile restorative material" and is used in dentistry for a number of reasons. It is inexpensive and relatively easy to use and manipulate during placement; it remains soft for a short time so it can be packed to fill any irregular volume, and then forms a hard compound.




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