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Title: Usual charge of the element mercury
Post by: Portomar1970 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?

Thank you

Title: Re: Usual charge of the element mercury
Post by: AWK 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.

Title: Re: Usual charge of the element mercury
Post by: Portomar1970 on December 12, 2016, 07:44:16 PM

Thank you

Title: Re: Usual charge of the element mercury
Post by: Enthalpy on December 13, 2016, 09:58:39 AM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oxidation_states_of_the_elements
De nada.

Title: Re: Usual charge of the element mercury
Post by: shiffdaddy 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.