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Offline Portomar1970

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Usual charge of the element mercury
« on: December 12, 2016, 07:11:26 PM »
Good evening,

My question is "What is the usual charge of the element mercury?" I thought the usual charge of the element mercury could be +1 or +2 depending on what compound it's in. Is that correct?

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Re: Usual charge of the element mercury
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2016, 07:35:32 PM »
Every texbook on general or inorganic chemistry contains this information, moreover any periodic table.
In the case of lack of this sources you may search Wikipedia.
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Re: Usual charge of the element mercury
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2016, 07:44:16 PM »
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Re: Usual charge of the element mercury
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2017, 10:00:09 PM »
If you haven't figured it out its neither :P

edit: unless you weren't specifically talking about ELEMENTAL mercury but a mercury COMPOUND like mercury nitrate.

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