mercuric sulphide

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a compound of mercury, usually existing as a black solid (metacinnabarite) or a red solid (cinnabar or vermilion), which is used as a pigment. Formula: HgSSystematic name: mercury(II) sulphide

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Words nearby mercuric sulphide

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

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How to use mercuric sulphide in a sentence

The precipitate was filtered, washed, and decomposed by hydrogen sulphide in a mixture of water and ether.
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The alcoholic solution of this third lot gave no precipitate with hydrogen sulphide.
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This powder will be referred to later as "P." The filtered liquid was freed from lead by hydrogen sulphide.
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Hydrogen sulphide was passed into the ether solution mixed with water to remove the lead.
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This was confirmed by dissolving the lead chloride in hot water and precipitating as lead sulphide.
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