7088

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7088
• Author: Eisler, R.
• Title: Mercury Hazards to Fish, Wildlife, and Invertebrates
• USFW Year: 1987.
• USFW - Doc Type: A Synoptic Review.
• Copyright Material: NO

Table 3. Some properties of mercury and its compounds.a
Elemental Mercurous Mercuric Methylmercury
Property mercury chloride chloride chloride
Empirical formula Hg Hg2C12 HgC12 CH3HgCl
Molecular weight 200.59 472.09 271.52 251.09c
Chlorine, % 0 15.02 26.12 14.12c
Mercury, % 100 84.98 73.88 79.89c
Melting point,oC -38.87 sublimes at 277 170c
400-500
Density 13.534 7.15 5.4 4.063c
Solubility, mg/l (ppm)
In water 0.056 2.0 74,070 -1,016d
In benzene 2.387b insol. 5,000 -6,535e
b A11 data from Merck Index (1976), except where indicated.
Spencer and Voigt (1968).
d Weast and Astle (1982).
Eisler (unpubl.), 72 hour equilibrium value.
e Eisler (unpubl.), 24 hour equilibrium value.
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