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How to Extract the Sulfur and Mercury from a Metal?

Lakshmana

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If this Test is left overnight, then the following day the SM will show a pale yellowish color.

Yellow = big clusters (gold chloride or chemical dissolution)
Ruby red = smaller clusters (500nm)
Purple = smaller (250-100nm)
Blue = very small (50-1nm)
Green = so called "monatomic" (disconnected gold)
At the alchemical dissolution stage the metallic form is completely lost, all the principles of the gold remain in the solution except the metallic binders which are dropped out.
When it is blue/green, "carbon" and any other metallic binders will start dropping out as black shit this is the true "alchemic dissolution" of gold.

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Im looking at gold nanoparticle sizes and colour variations research.

I'm not able to find anything to support the idea that the monoatomic form is green. However it's very interesting to me and I want to be able to find something about this.

I realise it might not be an easy thing to provide, but do you happen to remember where you got the information about the colour distinctions.

The information I have suggests that we go from basically
Grey - large particles
Blue - medium particles
Red - small particles
 

Lakshmana

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The information on this subject is pretty confusing but from personal experimentation the order seems to be what I said and I remember finding specific nanometer sizes from reading scientific articles.
They like using reducing agents and stabilizers and that probably causes them all to say different things.

But the last part which is what we are actually interested in is correct.
The larger particles are just light refracting in different wavelengths depending on their size and shape.