Amalgam (chemistry) copper trough, which formed a thin coating of mercury on the exterior. The waste ore was then transferred down the trough, and gold in the waste amalgamated with the mercury. This coating would then be scraped off and refined by evaporation to get rid of the mercury, leaving behind somewhat high-purity gold. Mercury amalgamation was first used on silver ores with the development of the patio process in Mexico in 1557. There were also additional amalgamation processes that were created for processing silver ores, including pan amalgamation and the Washoe process. Gold amalgam has proved effective where gold fines ("flour
Amalgam Comics Super Soldier Formula that created Captain America; the Bat-Thing, an amalgamation of the Man-Bat and the Man-Thing; or Shatterstarfire, the amalgamation of Shatterstar and Starfire). The 24 comics have been reprinted in four collected editions: Amalgam Comics Amalgam Comics was a publishing imprint shared by DC Comics and Marvel Comics, in which the two comic book publishers merged their characters into new ones (e.g., DC Comics' the Batman and Marvel Comics' Wolverine became the Amalgam character the Dark Claw). These characters first appeared in a series of twelve comic books which were published in 1996, between the third and fourth