mercuric chloride
mercuric chloride or mercury (II) chloride, chemical compound, HgCl 2 , a white powder of colorless rhombohedral crystals, somewhat soluble in water. It is also called bichloride of mercury or corrosive sublimate. It is extremely poisonous. Raw egg white may be given as an antidote, since mercuric chloride reacts with egg albumin to form a nearly insoluble precipitate; medical treatment should be sought immediately. Mercuric chloride is sometimes used in dilute solution as an antiseptic for inanimate objects and as a fungicide. It is also used in preparing other mercury compounds; it reacts with mercury metal to form mercurous chloride . Mercuric chloride is prepared by reacting mercury with chlorine gas or by subliming a mixture of mercuric sulfate and sodium chloride (common salt).
Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research
(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)
|
Letter: Life-saving therapy
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/28/2000; ; 251 words
; ...action of microdoses of mercuric chloride on the hydrolysis of starch...diastase. A normal dose of mercuric chloride will promptly jam the enzymatic...although the dilution of mercuric chloride was so great that, on present...
Read more
|
|
How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Environmental Health Perspectives; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...flavoring) and the effects of various wood treatments (mercuric chloride, creosote, chlorinated hydrocarbons, and copper-chromium...who developed the technologies (e.g., Michael Faraday for mercuric chloride), to those who studied the conditions (e.g., Jean-Martin...
Read more
|
|
Used tires, pistachio shells clean pollution
Magazine article from: Resource; 10/1/2000; ; 200 words
; ...evaluated the effectiveness at removing elemental mercury and mercuric chloride from several simulated combustion gas streams. Studies...nearly five times larger capacity for the adsorption of mercuric chloride than coal-derived counterparts. Results also showed that...
Read more
|
|
Used tires, pistachio shells clean pollution.(mercury emission removal from flues)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World; 10/1/2000; 200 words
; ...evaluated the effectiveness at removing elemental mercury and mercuric chloride from several simulated combustion gas streams. Studies...nearly five times larger capacity for the adsorption of mercuric chloride than coal-derived counterparts. Results also showed that...
Read more
|
|
Officials Nix 11 Pesticides.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Chemical Week; 9/27/2000; ; 90 words
; ...and all use of aldrin, chlordane, dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane (DDT), dieldrin, hexachlorobenzene, mirex, toxaphene, heptachlor, 2,4,5-trichlorophenol, as well as mercury-based pesticides including mercurous chloride and mercuric chloride.
Read more
|
|
EPA Issues Final Sludge Ruling.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Chemical Market Reporter; 11/20/2000; 228 words
; ...sludges from the production of vinyl chloride monomer using mercuric chloride catalyst in an acetylene-based process (K175 waste). As...generated from the production of vinyl chloride monomer using mercuric chloride catalyst in an acetylene-based process. But the agency...
Read more
|
|
The determination of urea in soil extracts and related samples--a review.
Magazine article from: Australian Journal of Soil Research; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...showed that addition of 5 [micro]g/g of silver sulfate, mercuric chloride, or phenylmercuric acetate (Fig. 1, [I]) completely inhibited...of urea. At this concentration, both silver sulfate and mercuric chloride impaired the colour-forming reaction, and therefore 5 mg...
Read more
|
 "The Economist (US)")
|
Maggots cure: folk remedies.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 9/20/1997; 700+ words
; ...the Greek island of Lemnos, long used as an antidote to poison, actually worked. The condemned man drank a teaspoon of mercuric chloride and swallowed a lump of the mystic clay. Court records recount that he went into spasms of pain, but survived. Clinical...
Read more
|
|
|
Borden Faces Criminal Charges in Waste Dumping Case.
Magazine article from: Chemical Week; 2/3/1999; ; 197 words
; ...plant at Cato Ridge, South Africa between 1991 and 1994 (CW, Nov. 9, 1994, p. 17). Borden maintains that the material-spent mercuric chloride catalysts-was not hazardous waste and that it expected Thor to recycle it. According to EPA, little or none of the material...
Read more
|
|
In-vitro callus induction and shoot regeneration in Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal.
Magazine article from: International Journal of Biotechnology & Biochemistry; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...surface-sterilized with 0.01% (w/v) mercuric chloride for 2-3 min, washed 3-4 times with...surface-sterilized similar to leaves with 0.1% mercuric chloride and cultured on agar-solidified MS...were surface-sterilized with 0.1% mercuric chloride and cultured on MS based ...
Read more
|
For more facts and information,
see all related premium articles
Related entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses
|
mercurous chloride
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...mercury and the very poisonous mercuric chloride on exposure to sunlight or...less dangerous poison than mercuric chloride chiefly because it is much...from a mixture of mercury and mercuric chloride or by precipitation from a...
Read more
|
|
|
corrosive sublimate
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
see mercuric chloride .
Read more
|
|
|
mercury
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...is unstable, decomposing to a mixture of mercury and mercuric oxide. Natural Occurrence and Uses Mercury occurs uncombined...The metal is obtained commercially from cinnabar , a mercuric sulfide ore; it is easily separated by roasting the...Mercury compounds have many uses. Calomel ( mercurous chloride , ...
Read more
|
|
Mercury
Book article from: Chemistry: Foundations and Applications
...mercurous), and 2+ (mercuric). It forms few simple...simple, water-soluble mercuric compounds: mercuric chloride, HgCl 2 ; mercuric nitrate, Hg(NO 3 ) 2 ; and mercuric acetate, Hg(CH 3 COO) 2 . The mercurous chloride, Hg 2 Cl 2 , is insoluble...
Read more
|
|
|
disinfectant
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...applied to inanimate bodies, whereas antiseptics , not so potent, are agents that kill microbes on living things. Mercuric chloride, carbolic acid (phenol), and chlorinated lime and other chlorine releasing compounds are disinfectants used on contaminated...
Read more
|
