Inorganic mercuric compounds (HgX 2) and organomercurials (R-Hg-X), in which the Hg is formally in the +2 oxidation state, are primarily responsible for the toxicity.

The mercuric scent of blood was everywhere and surgeons had to work with rudimentary surgical tools, in fact barbers were the ...

There are Gram-negative bacteria with mercury-resistance that is conferred on by a mercuric reductase encoded by the merA gene 5. merA efficiently catalyzes the reduction of Hg 2+ to elemental ...

BBC Science For his experiment, Priestley focused sunlight on a sample of mercuric oxide in an inverted glass container, placed in a pool of mercury Joseph Priestley, born 13 March 1733 ...

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He completed his M.S. (1979) and Ph.D. (1981) degrees in physics at the University of Missouri-Rolla. His research there investigated the interaction of low energy electron swarms with gas mixtures ...

Environment Department investigators found much of the waste inside the Ivan Hilton building — which included dozens of pounds each of potentially harmful substances like mercuric nitrate, bromine and ...

To their surprise, they saw that everything, including a striking green funerary mask, was covered with a scarlet powder, later confirmed to be cinnabar, the common term for mercuric sulfide.

Here's a 1964 magazine advertisement showing a pair of Mercuric or maybe Dodge-ish-looking vehicles scrunching into the tarmac during their pre-Monroe days.

It was first isolated in 1808 in England when Sir Humphry Davy electrolyzed a mixture of lime and mercuric oxide. Today we obtain calcium through the electrolysis of a fused salt such as calcium ...

Waterton had developed new methods to preserve bird skins, using toxic mercuric chloride as a fast-acting fixative to stop the animal’s tissues decaying. He taught these techniques to John, who ...

During the study period, 36 metals were included in the metal series (Table 1). Some of these allergens were the same metal in different concentrations or forms. The metal series has evolved over ...