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Originally Posted by SteamWake
What in the hell do you need 67 tons of mecury for munitions?
Thats a hella lot of tilt switches or was it used for other things?
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It has many uses:
- Fuses
- Rocket fuel production
- An old fashioned way of enriching uranium
- Auto-pilot and rocket systems
- Old fashioned electrics. Especially arc valves for power plants
- Optics, especially naval.
- Batteries
- It is expensive
The Germans also shipped radioactive materials mixed in mercury, but it is not clear why.
U-859's mercury only contains trace radioactive materials as a by product of it's
method of extraction tho.