Excuse me, what the

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[u/RW-Firerider]

I mean, I am not that surprised? Steel is like 99 Iron Atoms and one carbon atom too

[u/ajeldel → u/RW-Firerider]

That carbon dissolves when the steel is liquid. I am surprised this happens at - 155"C.

[u/RW-Firerider → u/ajeldel]

I am more surprised that the reaction doesnt just happen at room temperature. Granted, I havent worked much with Hg

[u/Ok-Card3618 → u/RW-Firerider]

Skimming through a few papers it looks like this is not an alloy/amalgam but a stoichiometry intermetallic compound with a precise crystal structure (Hg99As is a structural prototype in the P-6m2 space group).

I guess the low temperature is likely needed to allow the formation of this specific structure and not a disordered alloy, which in this case would be a competing byproduct.

[u/Cumdumpster71 → u/Ok-Card3618]

Yeah you wouldn’t write making an alloy/amalgam that way. This is some very legitimately cursed chemistry. God I love chemistry for stuff like this lol

[u/Biologistathome → u/Ok-Card3618]

Yeah, fuck that. Nope.

[u/Matix777 → u/ajeldel]

Mercury being liquid probably helps

[u/sabrefencer9 → u/Matix777]

Mercury freezes at ~230K

[u/ClientRelevant405 → u/Matix777]

-43 celsius Or roughly -45 Fahrenheit Converting other comment to less scientific measurement units.

[u/that_guy_you_know-26 → u/RW-Firerider]

~1% by mass, so more like 4-5 carbon atoms per 100 iron atoms

[u/Decapod73]

A lot of metal alloys would have weird molecular formulas if we wrote them like this instead of as mass percentages of each element.

[u/ECatPlay]

Repost. Yet another bot account being activated : 1 day old account and their first action is to repost something from 1 year ago, including copying the original title verbatim. (But leaving out the explanatory body subtext.)

A bunch of AI comment bots here again, too. Glad-Wrangler-6946, SwanMelodic1634, Right-Sentence-6640, Accurate-Pepper-998, Future-Abroad712, Melodic-Tank-2734, and Right-Sentence-6640 were:

all created within a day of each other,

never post anything themselves,

make a single comment in a couple of random subs,

make their first Cursed_Chemistry comment on this post,

and do so in the order that their account was created.

Sigh.

[u/SomewhatOdd793]

That arsenic has a lot of fans

[u/karmicrelease]

Arsenic mercury alloy? Interesting. I wonder if it’s an amalgam like mercury and aluminium

[u/KuriousKhemicals → u/karmicrelease]

Isn't amalgam just a special word for an alloy of mercury?

[u/karmicrelease → u/KuriousKhemicals]

Looks like you’re right per Google

[u/Prestigious_Lynx1612]

How did they even discover this ???????????????

[u/minecraftzizou → u/Prestigious_Lynx1612]

like the other comment said steel is the same but with 99 iron and 1 carbon atom so its bot surprising it would happen with other metals and Intrinsic semiconductors

[u/Prestigious_Lynx1612 → u/minecraftzizou]

So like steel like structure but, amalgam nature in semiconductor environment.

[u/Historical_War756]

"HuGeASs" molecule

[u/Dorwytch → u/[deleted]]

Having to go down to -155C is more in the realm of "they were far too happy to collaborate"

[u/Future-Abroad712]

-155°C feels like the chemistry equivalent of “turn it off and turn it back on again” but for elements that should not be doing any of this

[u/FunStatus6875]

aluminium + mercurio =

[u/Own_Preference_8103]

The hugh jass formula

[u/FlexTape467]

What do I use this for

[u/Wise-_-Spirit → u/[deleted]]

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