218 H. Wurtz on Sodium Amalgamation. 
exerts a chemical, or rather an elementary discrimination between 
bodies at insensible distances, and the antagonistic force of mag- 
netic attraction and repulsion, which is so eminent an example 
of a similar elementary discrimination, though at sensible dis- 
tances also. No one (to offer an illustration nearly, though not 
quite perfect) doubts the intimate relation between radiated and 
ore of this, however, hereafter. e term, from its conven 
ience alone, will doubtless come into extensive use, as a techni- 
eal term, among those who are most concerned in the utiliza- 
tion of the magnetic amalgam 
39 Nassau St. New York, January e 1866. 
SPECIFICATION, 
My invention consists: In imparting to quicksilver * @ 
greatly enhanced ren ants bch or affinity for other metals 
and for its own substan g to it a minute quantity 
of one of the highly atoceeoopoantive metals * sodium, 
potassium ete. 
My invention * is applicable: 
1st. In all arts and operations in which amalgamation by 
quicksilver can be made available to separate or extract gold, 
silver or other ee metals from their ores. 
%* 
3d. In all pie in which peaeemation by quicksilver, 
in conjunction with reduc ing metals, such as iron or zine, can 
made available in recovering metals from their soluble or in- 
soluble saline compounds; such as r “from its sulphate, 
chlorid or hyposulphite; lead from its ohana or chlorid; gold 
from its chlorid - other solution. 
8th. In the BBG: of metallic a in general; for 
—. in the amalgamation of the surfaces of zinc in vo oltaic 
batteries; of the surfaces of copper plates, pans, etc., used in 
the eyes of gold from its ores; 
9th. In the more convenient transportation of quicksilver, t by 
the reduction eiritce into solid forms. 
Th 7 
in the chemical and metallurgic arts, 
A Acree of one of the magnetic amalgams, nlved in 
one h 
disso : 
times its weight or more of quicksilver, communi 
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