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Offline Basha

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Making elemental mercury from Mercury sulfide
« on: May 13, 2010, 11:34:30 AM »
Hello. I was thinking about how to make elemental mercury from mercury sulfide. I find few methods (heating it up in air or with CaO), that involves gaseous mercury as the result, but I want to find one that will form liquid mercury instead. I don't want to deal with very toxic gases, because I don't have access to fume hood, and because I am not very sure about air-proofness of my equipment. I will be very thankful for any ideas.

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Re: Making elemental mercury from Mercury sulfide
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2010, 11:46:21 AM »
I don't have access to fume hood

So forget about the idea. Liquid mercury has relatively high vapor pressure, high enough to be dangerous.
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Re: Making elemental mercury from Mercury sulfide
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2010, 12:09:20 PM »
Ok :(

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