Amalgamated zinc

Amalgamated zinc is zinc that has been surface treated with mercury to form a surface amalgam containing little contamination from other elements.

Applications

Used from ~1837 to reduce 'local action' which degraded operation of Voltaic piles. See History of the battery#Invention of the battery.
To chemically reduce metallic ions in solution - See Jones reductor.

References

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