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Mercury Mineral Data
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General Mercury Information
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 Chemical Formula: |
Hg |
| Composition: |
Molecular Weight = 200.59 gm |
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Mercury 100.00 % Hg |
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100.00 % |
| Empirical Formula: |
Hg |
| Environment: |
Secondary mineral resulting from oxidation of cinnabar deposits. Solid below -38.9°C. |
| IMA Status: |
Valid Species (Pre-IMA) Prehistoric |
| Locality: |
Most notable occurrences are Almaden mines in Spain and the Idria mines in Yugoslavia. Link to MinDat.org Location Data. |
| Name Origin: |
From the Arabic. |
| Name Pronunciation: |
Mercury  |
| Synonym: |
ICSD 44514 |
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PDF 9-253 |
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Quecksilber |
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Quicksilver |
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Mercury Image |
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Mercury
Comments: Small silvery droplets of mercury on tan-colored rock matrix.
Location: Sonoma Co., California, USA.
Scale: Picture size 5 cm.
© Kevin Ward |
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Mercury Crystallography
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| Axial Ratios: |
a:c = 1:1.92739 |
| Cell Dimensions: |
a = 3.4573, c = 6.6636, Z = 3; V = 68.98 Den(Calc)= 14.49 |
| Crystal System: |
Trigonal - Hexagonal Scalenohedral H-M Symbol (3 2/m) Space Group: R 3m |
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Physical Properties of Mercury
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| Cleavage: |
None |
| Color: |
Tin white, Gray white. |
| Density: |
13.6 |
| Diaphaneity: |
Opaque |
| Habit: |
Liquid - Occurs as a liquid at room temperatures. |
| Hardness: |
0 - Liquid |
| Luminescence: |
Non-fluorescent. |
| Luster: |
Metallic |
| Magnetism: |
Nonmagnetic |
| Streak: |
none |
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Calculated Properties of Mercury
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| Electron Density: |
Bulk Density (Electron Density)=11.6 gm/cc
note: Specific Gravity of Mercury =14.5 gm/cc.
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| Fermion Index: |
Fermion Index = 0.3
Boson Index = 0.7 |
| Photoelectric: |
PEMercury =1,774.45 barns/electron
U=PEMercury x rElectron Density=20508.93 barns/cc.
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| Radioactivity: |
GRapi = 0 (Gamma Ray American Petroleum Institute Units)
Mercury is Not Radioactive |
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Mercury Classification
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| Dana Class: |
01.01.07.01 (01)Native Elements |
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(01.01)with metallic elements other than the platinum group |
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(01.01.07)Dana Group |
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01.01.07.01 Mercury Hg R 3m 3 2/m |
| Strunz Class: |
01.AD.05 01 - ELEMENTS (Metals and intermetallic alloys; metalloids and nonmetals; carbides, silicides, nitrides, phosphides) |
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01.A - Metals and Intermetallic Alloys |
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01.AD -Mercury-amalgam family |
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01.AD.05 Mercury Hg R 3m 3 2/m |
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Other Mercury Information
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| References: |
NAME( Duda&Rejl90) PHYS. PROP.(Enc. of Minerals,2nd ed.,1990) |
| See Also: |
Links to other databases for Mercury :
1 - Am. Min. Crystal Structure Database
2 - Amethyst Galleries' Mineral Gallery
3 - Athena
4 - GeoScienceWorld
5 - Google Images
6 - Google Scholar
7 - Handbook of Mineralogy (MinSocAm)
8 - Handbook of Mineralogy (UofA)
9 - MinDAT
10 - Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom
11 - Mineralienatlas (Deutsch)
12 - Online Mineral Museum
13 - Philatelic Mineralogy
14 - QUT Mineral Atlas
15 - Ruff.Info
16 - Scandinavian mineral gallery
17 - WWW-MINCRYST
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Mercury
Hg
Dana No: 01.01.07.01 Strunz No: 01.AD.05
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