Aluminium amalgam Aluminium amalgam Aluminium can form an amalgam in solution with mercury. Aluminium amalgam may be prepared by either grinding aluminium pellets or wire in mercury, or by allowing aluminium wire to react with a solution of mercury(II) chloride in water. This amalgam is used as a chemical reagent to reduce compounds, such as the reduction of imines to amines. The aluminium is the ultimate electron donor, and the mercury serves to mediate the electron transfer. The reaction itself and the waste from it contain mercury, so special safety precautions and disposal methods are needed. As an environmentally friendlier alternative, hydrides
Real element formula_1, Every involution is strongly real. Furthermore, every element that is the product of two involutions is strongly real. Conversely, every strongly real element is the product of two involutions. If and formula_1 is real in formula_2 and formula_30 is odd, then formula_1 is strongly real in formula_2. The extended centralizer of an element formula_1 of a group formula_2 is defined as making the extended centralizer of an element formula_1 equal to the normalizer of the set The extended centralizer of an element of a group formula_2 is always a subgroup of formula_2. For involutions or non-real elements, centralizer and