Trapped! Mercury meets Sulfur
Rub sulfur powder into mercury and they join even without heating, making mercury sulfide. It traps the dangerous mercury in a solid.
The result
- What it makes
- Mercury sulfide (cinnabar)
- Equation
- Hg + S → HgS
- When it happens
- When ground together
Fun fact from Fizzy: Sulfur powder is used to clean up spilled mercury. The red pigment vermilion is also mercury sulfide!
🥽 Mercury is poisonous. Never touch it.