Sodium amalgam sodium metal in mercury or the reverse. Sodium amalgams can be purchased from chemical supply houses. Since its introduction in the 1880s by students of Robert Bunsen, Julius Tafel and Hans Goldschmidt, sodium amalgam has also been used in organic chemistry as a powerful reducing agent, which is safer to handle than sodium itself. An example of its use is in the Emde degradation. A sodium amalgam is used in the design of the high pressure sodium lamp providing sodium to produce the proper color, and mercury to tailor the electrical characteristics of the lamp. Sodium amalgam is a by-product
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