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I have heard when gold is heated to its melting point

BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
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A toxic gas is given off. What is that gas?
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  • carscars Posts: 1,904
    Chlorides
    Its all relative
  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,303 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Bear" market gas.

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,231 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wouldn't gold have to reach its boilling point to give off any fumes?

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  • RWBRWB Posts: 8,082 ✭
    Where did you hear this?
  • BBQnBLUESBBQnBLUES Posts: 1,803 ✭
    Could you be confusing this with the method old miners used to refine their gold ?

    They used Liquid Mercury to seperate out the gold from the crused ore.... Then they would heat the Liguid in a copper pan allowing the Mercury to vaporize... which is a poisonous gas..
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    What about cyanide, arsine and stibnine
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  • mhammermanmhammerman Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭
    Bear...you just need the right adsorbent.
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    I PLANNED TO STUFF JELLY DONUTES

    UP MY NOSE. WONT THAT WORK?
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,231 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I PLANNED TO STUFF JELLY DONUTES

    UP MY NOSE. WONT THAT WORK? >>



    OMG Bear is now snorting jelly donuts.image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • GemineyeGemineye Posts: 5,374 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I PLANNED TO STUFF JELLY DONUTES

    UP MY NOSE. WONT THAT WORK? >>



    OMG Bear is now snorting jelly donuts.image >>


    image........you mean the kind with the WHITE POWDER....!!!!!!!!!!!!..........image
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,231 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>I PLANNED TO STUFF JELLY DONUTES

    UP MY NOSE. WONT THAT WORK? >>



    OMG Bear is now snorting jelly donuts.image >>


    image........you mean the kind with the WHITE POWDER....!!!!!!!!!!!!..........image >>



    And you though that was powdered sugar on those donuts?image




    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Gee, I thought the high was from a sugar rush.image
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  • element159element159 Posts: 525 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Wouldn't gold have to reach its boilling point to give off any fumes? >>


    No, things give off some vapors below their boiling point - this is how water evaporates eventually at room temperature even though this is much below 100 C. At the boiling point, the vapor pressure is equal to atmospheric pressure, but there is some vapor pressure at lower temperatures. PURE gold wouldn't give off any 'toxic' fumes, so you would be talking of some impurity. Mercury seems to be a likely culprit, it is used in some purification methods, it is volatile, and is toxic.

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