Mercury AND Gallium - Totally Destroys Aluminum Heatsink

I used both gallium and mercury to destroy an aluminum heat sink. About 10 years ago, there was an article in Popular Science about “rusting aluminum“ where gallium was smeared on an aluminum I-beam, and then Hg was added to it. The video was also posted on Youtube a couple years later, but it was pre-HD day. I always wanted to show a more detailed version of that process. A couple years after the “rusting aluminum“ article came out, I did my own experiment using only Hg on an aluminum hea