Mercury sublimate

The writings of Sylvius were first published between 1659 and 1674, all on medical subjects primarily, unless we except his brief treatise on Chemical Medicines,10 which is practically confined to the various medicinal compounds of antimony— flowers, liver, regulus, glass, antimony diaphoreticum, butter of antimony, the latter made by distilling crude antimony (that is sulphide) with mercury sublimate (that is mercuric chloride). These compounds were, however, all known by 1600 and well summarized in pseudo-Basilius s (Tholden s) Currus Tri-umphalis Antimonii. 

White, odorless, tasteless, heavy powder slowly dec by sunlight into mercuric chloride and metallic mercury sublimes at 400-500 without melting, d 7.15. Practically insol in water (0-00020g/]00 ml H20 at 25 ) HCI or alkali and alkaline earth chlorides increase soly in water. Insol in alcohol. ether. Dec by solns of alkali iodides, bromides or cya -nides into the mercuric salt and metallic mecury solns of alkali chlorides act similarly but slowly. It is blackened by ammonia, caustic alkali and alkaline earth solns. Protect from light. Incompat Bromides, iodides, alkali chlorides, sulfates, sulfites, carbonates, hydroxides, lime water, acacia, ammonia, golden antimony sulfide, cocaine, cyanides, copper salts, hydrogen peroxide, iodine, iodoform, lead salts, silver salts, soap, sulfides. 

Mercury (II) chloride Mercury chloride (2) Mercury perchloride Perchloride of mercury Sublimate... 

Synonyms mercuric bichloride mercuric chloride bichloride of mercury corrosive sublimate mercury perchloride corrosive mercury chloride mercury (II) chloride mercury chloride dichloromercury perchloride of mercury sublimate TL 898 mercury chloride (2)... 

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