Re: Hg vs. Al video

From: hanson (hanson_at_quick.net)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 23:56:41 GMT

<sawlake-orange@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Popular Science destroys an aluminum I-beam on video with mercury
> paste. permalink:
> http://glikglik.blogspot.com/2005/02/rusting-aluminum.html
>
[hanson]
Dena vue and much more dramatic.
During the latter phases of WWII, the Germans detonated Hg
filled AAA shells against our B17/24/26 Bombers. The planes
flew thru these clouds of Hg and some 30 minutes later their
wings fell off. -- The problem was immediately identified by
the white AlO(OH)/ Al2O3 bloom on the Alu surfaces and
countermanded simply by lacquering/painting the alu skins.
hanson