7439-97-6 Mercury

Name: Mercury
Synonyms: Mercuryelement;Quicksilver;
CAS Number:7439-97-6
Molecular Formula:Hg
Molecular Weight:200.59
EINECS:231-106-7
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Boiling Point:356.6 °C(lit.)

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Safety Description:Poison by inhalation. Human systemic effects by inhalation: wakefulness, muscle weakness, anorexia, headache, tinnitus, hypermotility, diarrhea, liver changes, dermatitis, fever. An experimental teratogen. Experimental reproductive effects. Questionable carcinogen with experimental tumorigenic data. Human mutation data reported. Used in dental applications, electronics, and chemical synthesis.

May explode on contact with 3-bromopropyne, alkynes + silver perchlorate, ethylene oxide, lithium, methylsilane + oxygen (explodes when shaken), peroxyformic acid, chlorine dioxide, tetracarbonylnickel + oxygen. May react with ammonia to form an explosive product. Mixtures with methyl azide are shock- and spark-sensitive explosives. The vapor ignites on contact with boron diiodophosphide. Reacts violently with acetylenic compounds (e.g., acetylene, sodium acetylide, 2-butyne-1,4-diol + acid), metals (e.g., aluminum, calcium, potassium, sodium, rubidium, exothermic formation of amalgams), Cl₂, ClO₂, CH₃N₃, Na₂C₂, nitromethane. Incompatible with methyl azide, oxidants. When heated to decomposition it emits toxic fumes of Hg. See also MERCURY COMPOUNDS, INORGANIC; MERCURY COMPOUNDS, ORGANIC.

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For occupational chemical analysis use OSHA: #ID-185S or NIOSH: Mercury, 6000.
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