The mercuric scent of blood was everywhere and surgeons had to work with rudimentary surgical tools, in fact barbers were the ...

Environment Department investigators found much of the waste inside the Ivan Hilton building — which included dozens of pounds each of potentially harmful substances like mercuric nitrate, bromine and ...

Since the dawn of time, man has contemplated ways to live forever. While this goal remains science fiction, major healthcare and technology breakthroughs have resulted in extended human longevity.

The industrial catalyst for this process has been the environmentally non-friendly mercuric chloride. So, on a wet Saturday afternoon in Johannesburg in September 1982, I was analysing some ...

To their surprise, they saw that everything, including a striking green funerary mask, was covered with a scarlet powder, later confirmed to be cinnabar, the common term for mercuric sulfide.

Baohua Gu is a Corporate Fellow in Environmental Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, with a joint appointment as a Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is also a ...

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