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mercuric oxide
noun
, Chemistry.
- a slightly crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous compound, HgO, occurring as a coarse, orange-red powder red mercuric oxide or as a fine, orange-yellow powder yellow mercuric oxide: used chiefly as a pigment in paints and as an antiseptic in pharmaceuticals.
mercuric oxide
noun
- a soluble poisonous substance existing in red and yellow powdered forms: used as pigments. Formula: HgO Systematic namemercury(II) oxide
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Redissolve the precipitate in nitric acid, and boil the solution with mercuric oxide, which does not precipitate the ferric oxide.
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Substances which burn with difficulty may be mixed with mercuric oxide in addition to copper oxide.
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Chlorine monoxide results on passing chlorine over dry precipitated mercuric oxide.
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The molecule of mercuric oxide and the atom of oxygen which it contains have the ratio 216: 16.
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The relative weight of the mercuric oxide molecule must therefore be the sum of these, or 216.
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