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Compounds of mercury:

mercury (II) sulphide

• Formula as commonly written: HgS
• Hill system formula: Hg₁S₁
• CAS registry number: [1344-48-5]
• Formula weight: 232.656
• Class: sulphide

Synonyms

• mercury (II) sulphide
• mercury sulphide
• cinnabar
• mercuric sulphide

Physical properties

• Colour: scarlet red (high temperature form black)
• Appearance: crystalline solid
• Melting point: 344°C (red to black form)
• Boiling point: 580°C
• Density: 8170 kg m^-3

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Element analysis and oxidation numbers

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Solid state structure

• Geometry of mercury:
• Prototypical structure:

Isotope pattern

What follows is the calculated isotope pattern for the HgS unit with the most intense ion set to 100%.

Formula: Hg₁S₁

mass  %
228   0.5 
229   0.0 
230  32.2 ________________
231  54.7 ___________________________
232  76.4 ______________________________________
233  45.5 _______________________
234 100.0 __________________________________________________
235   2.7 _
236  26.5 _____________
237   0.2 
238   1.0 
239   0.0 
240   0.0 

References

The data on these compounds pages are assembled and adapted from the primary literature and several other sources including the following.

• R.T. Sanderson in Chemical Periodicity, Reinhold, New York, USA, 1960.
• N.N. Greenwood and A. Earnshaw in Chemistry of the Elements, 2nd edition, Butterworth, UK, 1997.
• F.A. Cotton, G. Wilkinson, C.A. Murillo, and M. Bochmann, in Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
• A.F. Trotman-Dickenson, (ed.) in Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry, Pergamon, Oxford, UK, 1973.
• R.W.G. Wyckoff, in Crystal Structures, volume 1, Interscience, John Wiley & Sons, 1963.
• A.R.West in Basic solid state chemistry Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
• A.F. Wells in Structural inorganic chemistry, 4th edition, Oxford, UK, 1975.
• J.D.H. Donnay, (ed.) in Crystal data determinative tables, ACA monograph number 5, American Crystallographic Association, USA, 1963.
• D.R. Lide, (ed.) in Chemical Rubber Company handbook of chemistry and physics, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 77th edition, 1996.
• J.W. Mellor in A comprehensive treatise on inorganic and theoretical chemistry, volumes 1-16, Longmans, London, UK, 1922-1937.
• J.E. Macintyre (ed.) in Dictionary of inorganic compounds, volumes 1-3, Chapman & Hall, London, UK, 1992.

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