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Hingul

Hingul, Cinnabar

TRADE NAME


Cinnabar

MOLECULAR FORMULA


HgS

SYNONYMS


Mercury(II) sulfide

ABOUT

Cinnabar, sometimes written cinnabarite, is a name applied to red mercury(II) sulfide (HgS), or native vermilion, the common ore of mercury. The name comes from the Greek - Kinnabari used by Theophrastus, and was probably applied to several distinct substances. Other sources say the word comes from the Persian zinjifrah, a word of uncertain origin. In Latin it was known as Minium, meaning also red lead a word probably borrowed from Iberian.

SHODHAN OR AYURVEDA PURIFICATION PROCESS

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