Mercury silvering methods. The technique was also used in Asia, for example "tokin" plating in Edo-period Japan. Mercury silvering Mercury silvering or fire gilding is a silvering technique for applying a thin layer of precious metal such as silver or gold (mercury gilding) to a base metal object. The process was invented during the Middle Ages and is documented in Vannoccio Biringuccio's 1540 book "De la pirotechnia". An amalgam of mercury and the precious metal is prepared and applied to the object which is then heated, sometimes in oil, vaporizing most of the mercury. The technique is dangerous since mercury is highly
Mercury Man warmongers to the devastated planet of Mercury, so they can see the results of nuclear war. And leaves them there when they refuse to mend their ways (and had damaged the space capsule he brought them in). Mercury Man was not one of the characters purchased by DC Comics. Mercury Man and other comic's "Storyworld" characters has been aqurired, with all copyrights and trademarks to, Tommy G Warren, Spiderwood Productions and to be produced by another Spiderwood franchise (Storyworld). Mercury Man Mercury Man was a superhero published by Charlton Comics in their Science Fiction anthology title "Space Adventures" after they