Important: Safety Warning
This page describes trade processes that use dangerously toxic materials such as cyanide solutions, mercury amalgams, or strong acids. These processes require training, equipment, and precautions far beyond what the text describes.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
Fluid Alloy
If sodium 4, potassium 2 1/2, be mixed together, an alloy having the appearance and consistency of mercury will result, which remains liquid at the ordinary temperatures like that metal. See MERCURY; ALLOY; SODIUM.