Quote Originally Posted by Ksheep View Post
That… that just might work. Of course, now I have to ask how many souvenir lingams are actually made as a mercury amalgam, and how many are just Gallium? It probably wouldn't be too difficult to convince someone off the street that the liquid metal you're working with is Mercury which you make it, then sell it as though it were this über-rare solid mercury pendant.
Well, there's still the issue that gallium is liquid at 30°C. So if you cooled it somehow and then a person wore it as a pendant it would start dripping. Could be a gallium alloy? I have no idea about any of those. The mercury amalgam idea seems implausible to me, because the densities would probably be too high for the mass of that ball. Unless that number is way off. Still, even a mercury-copper amalgam wouldn't be all that cheap...