mercury (I) chromate. It is a red powder. It doesn't dissolve in water. I made it from sodium chromate and mercury(I) nitrate dihydrate.
vano - 23-12-2020 at 09:04
More photos and reagents which i used.
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Bedlasky - 23-12-2020 at 22:25
Nice! When I was at high school, I learned about classical qualitative inorganic analysis (and also did some lab practice). But I never worked with
Hg(I) salts and I always want to see some Hg(I) compounds. I have small amount of elementar Hg, maybe I'll try make this compound.Metacelsus - 24-12-2020 at 12:36
How stable is this? Will chromate eventually oxidize the Hg(I) to Hg(II)?vano - 24-12-2020 at 22:33
Holy sh*t, mercury AND chromate all in one? That's a toxicity double whammy!
Not so poisonous, because it is insoluble, the main thing is not to inhale the powder and because it is a heavy compound the powder does not stay in
the air for long.
