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

BBC Science For his experiment, Priestley focused sunlight on a sample of mercuric oxide in an inverted glass container, placed in a pool of mercury Joseph Priestley, born 13 March 1733 ...

There are Gram-negative bacteria with mercury-resistance that is conferred on by a mercuric reductase encoded by the merA gene 5. merA efficiently catalyzes the reduction of Hg 2+ to elemental ...