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Liquid mercury is recovered from its partial amalgam with copper by heating to the dissociation temperature and condensing the vapor on the walls of a reactor vessel. The technique has been used to recover small quantities of isotopically enriched mercury.
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J. L. Gallant, D. J. Yaraskavitch, and N. C. Bray, Preparation of targets for measuring g-factors of isomeric states and for fission studies of muonic 235U and 238U, World Conference of the Int. Nuclear Target Development Society, Garching, Sept. 1978.
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Gallant, J.L. (1981). The Recovery of Metallic Mercury. In: Jaklovsky, J. (eds) Preparation of Nuclear Targets for Particle Accelerators. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3956-4_28
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