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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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What is the formula of mercurous nitrate?

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Mercurous nitrate and sodium chloride?

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Who discover mercurous nitrate?

According to the newspaper account given by the link it was first prepared by Acharya P. C. Ray.


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