Essays about: "gold amalgam"

Found 2 essays containing the words gold amalgam.

1. 1. Does the technology mercury retort have a potential to be adopted by artisanal gold miners in Chontales, Nicaragua?

   University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Avdelningen för ekoteknik och hållbart byggande

   Author : Linda Grinell; [2014]
   Keywords : mercury retort; artisanal gold mining; nicaragua; mercury; gold amalgam;

   Abstract : Emissions of mercury is a global problem and the sector artisanal and small scale gold mining is the major mercury emission source. This study has been made within the artisanal gold mining in Santo Domingo, Nicaragua. The focus has been on the burning process in the artisanal gold extraction. READ MORE

3. 2. Amalgam and Mercury in the Dental Setting and the Efficiency of Amalgam Separators

   University essay from Tema vatten i natur och samhälle

   Author : Ulla Jacobsson-Hunt; [2007]
   Keywords : Mercury; Amalgam; Amalgam Separators;

   Abstract : Mercury is the only metal that is in liquid form at room temperature and it has over the years been used in various combinations to extract gold, in measuring devices, medicaments, paper industry, batteries and fluorescent lights as well as in dentistry as dental amalgam. Dental amalgam is a mixture of 50 % mercury and 50% of an alloy consisting of silver, tin, copper and zink particles and has been used in dentistry for many years. READ MORE