and sulfide minerals such as oldhamite. The meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 7325 was initially proposed as a possible fragment of Mercury. However, its mineralogy includes chromium-rich pyroxene ...

Toxic and elusive mercury, which does not exist in liquid form in nature, needed to be obtained from the brilliant red ore of mercury sulfide called cinnabar.

Here’s what caused black stains on Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus The culprit: nanoparticles of metacinnabar, a mercury sulphide black crystalline phase.

Chemists have for the first time established how Rembrandt applied special arsenic sulfide pigments to create a 'golden' paint.

Naturally occurring organic matter in water and sediment appears to play a key role in helping microbes convert tiny particles of mercury in the environment into a form that is dangerous to most ...

The earliest evidence of mercury poisoning has been found in 5,000-year-old bones of humans buried in Spain and Portugal, according to a new study.

Mercury and algal blooms poisoned Maya reservoirs at Tikal A recent study analyzed sediments from large reservoirs in the Maya city of Tikal.

Operators at Saudi Aramco's Berri gas plant successfully resolved problems of high mercury content in the plant's feed gas by replacing activated carbon material with copper-sulfide ...

Laccaic acid, thought to be produced by lac insects, is produced by a symbiont similar to the zombie ant fungus ...

A study in the journal Chemical Research in Toxicology finds that mercury on the surface of dental fillings slowly turns to an inert sulfide compound, which should keep the mercury from harming ...

Naturally occurring organic matter in water and sediment appears to play a key role in helping microbes convert tiny particles of mercury in the environment into a form that is dangerous to most ...

Early humans were likely exposed to mercury through cinnabar, a sulfide mineral that produces a bright red powder when pulverized. H. Zell via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 A chance find at ...