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A good way to start would be to learn some chemical terminology so you don't just throw a bunch of "chemical-sounding" words together and expect it to be something that actually exists. "Mercury mercuric nitric dioxide" is nonsense.

If you do a Google search for that phrase, you'll find it's used by scammers. They claim to be involved in some kind of scheme where money was coated with a black coating so that it appears to be black construction paper and then snuck through customs. Usually this is claimed to be drug money, money defrauded from a foreign government, an inheritance, or something along those lines, and the mark is told that the scammers need to buy a "very expensive" cleaning solution called "mercury mercuric nitric dioxide" to remove the coating. This is often demonstrated with the assistance of some slight of hand, but the scammers have only a small amount of the cleaner, and need to buy more, so if the mark could just advance them the funds ...

In reality, the only bill that was real was the one that got "cleaned" (usually it's stained with iodine, and the "cleaning solution" is actually citric acid). The rest of it really is black construction paper.

From the scammers' point of view, this is a good con, because the mark is even less likely than usual to go to the police. It's embarassing to go to the police and say "I was an idiot and I got scammed," but it's even worse to go to the police and say "I was an idiot involved in criminal activitytrying to avoid paying taxes (or launder drug money) and the guys that were helping me conned me and stole my money."

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