High Purity Mercury CAS#7439-97-6
High Fluidity & Special Solubility: Pure mercury is liquid metal at room temperature, insoluble in water, ethanol and common organic solvents, soluble in concentrated nitric acid and hot concentrated sulfuric acid, easy to form amalgam with most metals.
Stable Chemical Property: It keeps stable under normal temperature and dry air, only slowly oxidizes in humid air, maintains stable physical state without deterioration in conventional storage environment.
Versatile Uses: Widely applied in electronic industry, laboratory reagent, thermometer, pressure gauge, mercury lamp, chemical electrode and precious metal amalgam preparation fields.
Liquid Metallic Form & Physical Characteristic: This product is silvery-white heavy liquid metal with unique fluidity, odorless, high density and good electrical conductivity, convenient for industrial filling and precise experimental use.
High purity mercury, characterized by the molecular formula Hg, exists as silvery-white flowing liquid metal with high purity grade. It features excellent thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity and stable physical and chemical properties, conforms to industrial high-standard raw material requirements, widely used in precision instrument manufacturing and chemical industry.
High Purity Mercury Chemical Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Melting point | -38.83 °C (lit.) |
| Density | 13.534 g/cm³ |
| Vapor density | 6.93 (vs air) |
| Refractive index | Not applicable |
| Storage temp | Store below +30°C, sealed cool dark place |
| Solubility | Insoluble in water, alcohol; soluble in strong oxidizing acid |
| Form | Silver-white liquid metal |
| Color | Silvery white |
| Odor | Odorless |
| PH Range | Neutral |
| PH | 7.0 (Neutral) |
| Water Solubility | Insoluble |
| Sensitive | Slightly volatile at room temperature |
| Merck | 14,5813 |
| BRN | Not applicable |
| Stability | Stable in dry air, easy to react with sulfur, halogen substances |
| InChIKey | QSHDDOUJBYECFT-UHFFFAOYSA-N |
| CAS DataBase Reference | 7439-97-6(CAS DataBase Reference) |
| NIST Chemistry Reference | Mercury(7439-97-6) |
| EPA Substance Registry System | Mercury elemental (7439-97-6) |
Safety Information
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Hazard Codes | T+, N |
| Risk Statements | 23/24/25-33-50/53 |
| Safety Statements | 13-28-36-45-60-61 |
| WGK Germany | 3 |
| RTECS | OV4550000 |
| F | Non-flammable |
| TSCA | Yes |
| HS Code | 2805400000 |
This elemental mercury is mainly used to manufacture various precision measuring instruments, electrical switches, mercury rectifiers and ultraviolet mercury lamps. It is also used as laboratory chemical reagent, catalyst carrier, dental alloy raw material and mining gold-extracting amalgam material. Meanwhile it is used in pharmaceutical industry raw materials and special metal smelting industry.
