Weird Alien Rock!

Well its not realy alien but the very bizarre results of pouring mercury thiocyanide onto pourous rock.
Have a look at the vid-very strange!
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oh wow.. that is crazy.. ! ive never seen anything like it before.

Originally posted by fill0000
oh wow.. that is crazy.. ! ive never seen anything like it before.

Fill0000 Thanks for the reply,neither have I!
Its bonkers.

Wow thats really neat stuff, wonder if theirs any good practical uses for stuff like that, i'll have to ask my uncle about that stuff, hes a professor of geology at our local university, he'll be delighted to see this vid...

Like the firework snake things
hmmm info on side says
mercury thiocyanide

[This is a piece of mercury thiocyanide. When decomposing, it makes large volume of ash, much larger than the piece of mercury thiocyanide itself.
By popular demand, here is a recipe to prepare mercury thiocyanide:
]

like the snake thing


1st edit didn't go throu - added little more info from side info from video
[edit on 10/4/2008 by EvilBat]

[edit on 10/4/2008 by EvilBat]

Originally posted by Spock Shock
Wow thats really neat stuff, wonder if theirs any good practical uses for stuff like that, i'll have to ask my uncle about that stuff, hes a professor of geology at our local university, he'll be delighted to see this vid...

SpockShock Thanks for the reply,the video is certainly very odd but I can´t think of any practical uses (other than freaking people out at a party ).
Hope your Unc likes the vid!
Cheers Karl

[edit on 02/10/08 by karl 12]

Originally posted by EvilBat
[This is a piece of mercury thiocyanide. When decomposing, it makes large volume of ash, much larger than the piece of mercury thiocyanide itself.
By popular demand, here is a recipe to prepare mercury thiocyanide:

EvilBat- Thanks for the reply (and the recipe).
It is worth pointing out that Mercury Thiocyanide fumes are extremely toxic though
Cheers Karl