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28th Jun 2018 13:28 UTCvictor rzonca
28th Jun 2018 13:51 UTCPaul Brandes 🌟 Manager
28th Jun 2018 15:06 UTCvictor rzonca
28th Jun 2018 17:14 UTCErin Delventhal Manager
28th Jun 2018 17:21 UTCAlfredo Petrov Manager
One could coat the stone with graphite, then plate it with a metal which forms amalgams, such as gold or silver, then dip it in Hg to create the amalgam coat, but I doubt that they've gone to that much trouble, and even then it would be a mercury amalgam coating and not strictly speaking a "mercury" coating. Just some marketing ploy, I expect.
28th Jun 2018 18:34 UTCvictor rzonca
28th Jun 2018 18:41 UTCScott Rider
Excerpt directly from Wiki: "The cause of Qin Shi Huang's death is still largely unknown, reportedly, he died from Chinese alchemical elixir poisoning due to ingesting mercury pills, made by his alchemists and court physicians, believing it to be an elixir of immortality."
Anyway, anyone actually selling mercury probably would get in a lot of trouble, at least in a developed country. Sending toxic stuff through the mail tends to anger postal services.. And, those stones are probably cheaply made w/silver spray paint. And I doubt they are actual Lingam stones anyway.
28th Jun 2018 18:42 UTCMichael Sommers
28th Jun 2018 18:44 UTCDoug Schonewald
These look suspiciously like they were cast. How heavy are they? Aluminum has that satiny look when cast. Aluminum paint also looks suspiciously like these. A dip in acetone might tell you a lot.
28th Jun 2018 18:54 UTCvictor rzonca
4th Jul 2018 00:14 UTCJohn Oostenryk
Likely Easily done.
Easier to spray paint silver-LOL
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