mercuric sulfide

or mercury sulfide

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noun Chemistry.

a crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous compound, HgS, occurring as a coarse, black powder (black mercuric sulfide ) or as a fine, bright-scarlet powder (red mercuric sulfide ): used chiefly as a pigment and as a source of the free metal.

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Origin of mercuric sulfide

First recorded in 1850–55

Words nearby mercuric sulfide

mercurialism, mercurialize, mercuric, mercuric chloride, mercuric oxide, mercuric sulfide, mercuric sulphide, mercurify, mercurize, mercuro-, Mercurochrome

How to use mercuric sulfide in a sentence

Their hydrogen sulfide plant blew a crater in the ground a year ago.
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On addition of a solution of mercuric chloride to the red filtrate, a brown flocculent precipitate was formed.
Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant: (Rhus Toxicodendron)|William Anderson Syme
Mercuric cyanide, as we have seen (p. 115), is exceptional in its exceedingly small capacity for ionization.
The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2.|Julius Stieglitz
Qualitative tests demonstrated the presence of a chlorid, a nitrate, a mercuric salt, free acid and glycerin.
The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2|Various

Mercury itself is soluble in nitric acid, forming, when the acid is hot and strong, mercuric nitrate.
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.|Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer
According to Personne mercuric chloride is not volatilised from boiling solutions when alkaline chlorides are present.
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.|Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer