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CAUTION: Do not perform this experiment anywhere except an fume-hood as it produces highly toxic Mercury vapors

On boiling Mercurous nitrate in the presence of light, it disproportionates into elemental Mercury and Mercuric nitrate.

Hg2(NO3)2 ----> Hg + Hg(NO3)2

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CAUTION: Do not perform this experiment anywhere except an fume-hood as it produces highly toxic Mercury vapors

On boiling Mercurous nitrate in the presence of light, it disproportionates into elemental Mercury and Mercuric nitrate.

Hg2(NO3)2 ----> Hg + Hg(NO3)2

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Mercuric Chloride or Mercury(II) Chloride

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Mercurous has a charge of +2, and Oxide has a charge of -2. You cross the charges

and get Hg2O2. The 2s cancel out, leaving you : HgO

nuh uh, mercurOUS has a charge of +1, so it's Hg2O

mercurIC has a charge of +2, that would be HgO

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The formula for mercurous peroxide is Hg2O2.

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Mercury forms amalgams with most metals.

It can react with non-metals to form to types of compounds: mercurous and mercuric compounds.

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