Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12213

    Mercury solutions

    Date
    1840
    Object type
    Library reference
    RCN: R62595
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 205mm
    width (print): 256mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Solutions of mercury salts in wine glasses, illustrating the colour of each solution. Figure 82 shows mercury oxide salts [‘Quecksilberoxydulsalze’] in six solutions, including (number 6) with a copper rod. Figure 83 shows mercuric oxide [?] salts [‘Quecksilberoxydsalze’] in five solutions, including (number 5) with a copper rod.

    Figures 82-83 from Das Laboratorium…v.1 (Weimar, 1840). Inscribed above ‘Taf: LXXXII. LXXXIII.’ Both sets of figures are headed ‘QUECKSILBER and there is a numbered key to each solution beneath the images.
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