I would like to know if there is any way that I could make mercury or another liquid metal be attracted or repelled by magnets. Absolutely any solution would be okay with me.
For example… can I make an alloy with mercury which could be affected by magnets? Can I mix iron shavings into the mercury? Can I mix the mercury with some kind of magnetic solution to achieve this?
I don't mean that the mercury itself needs to be magnetic, I just need the outcome to be liquid metal getting moved by magnets. Like I say, the method for achieving this can be as obscure or unconventional as you want.
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You could run a current through the liquid mercury and make it into an electromagnet. The practicalities of this escape me though.