Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[Zeev Hed]

Just a good solvent, as soon as the mercury evaporates and contaminates the environment, pure gold emerges victorious. Aqua regia reduces it to chlorides and maybe some nitrates as well), just a nasty powder, no lust, no gloss, no nothing...unless of course, you take the stuff and heat it to about 1069 C, then you get "liquid brilliant gold" again.