258 METALS. 83. Hydrargyrttm.. 



Mercurius falphure, &c. Ifall./yst.i.p.t^x^fi*'^, 



Cupreous mercury. Schmei/er miner aL 2. /. 71. 



Grcyilh-black mercury. Kituan min- z- p. 231. 



Found in beds of potftone, quartz and fhift, in the mines nea? 

 Mojchellandsburg and Sumatra^ in a compacl brittle heavy 

 ftate, and of a grey or blackiHb colour : when ircfh broken it 

 has a glafiy appearance : it gives a red ilrcak, and before the 

 blowpipe melts with borax into a green glals: it contains 

 more or lefs of fulphur and copper. 



glanduksum'^iihout rnetallic luftre, red with a fcarlet ftreak, emit- 

 ting fulphurous flames and arfcnical vapours when- 

 heated. 



Hydragyrum arfenicale. Syst. tiat. xii. 3. p- 120. ». 4. 



Mercurius ruber. Cronji. mineraL 63. 



Found in the mines oijapatiy and contains mercury mineraliz- 

 ed by fulphur and arfenic. 



mixtum. In the form of white lumps, emitting fulphurous and ar- 

 fenical vapours when heated. 

 Mercurius miltus. Monet fyjU min. 

 Mercury mixed with filVer, &:c. Schmei/s, 2. p, 74. 

 Found in the mines of Dauphiny, and contains mercury i part, 

 filver ' , and the remainder iron, cobalt, arfenic and fulphur, 



phloptsticum Of a^ dull opake colour, ponderous, brittle, flaming and 



emitting difagreeable vapours when heated. 



Brunnich Cronft. min. 216. B. 2. 



Found in the mines of Idrh, and contains a large portion of 

 qoickfilver. 



fcEtens, 



Dark red-brown, lamellar, fomewhat pellucid, fmelling 

 like liver of fulphur when rubbed. 



Born chem.annal. 1789. l.^ 316. 



Hacquet chem. dn*iaL 3. p. 480, 



Bituminous mercury ore. SchmeiJJer 2. /. 72. 



Found in the mi-^es of Idria on horn (lone, has an earthy tex- 

 ture and flames when kindled, the vapours of which have 

 the fmell of bitumen : it yields from 15 to 20 per cent, of 

 mercury. 



