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Manure salts
potash salts that have a high proportion of chloride and 20-30% potash; used in fertilizers.

Marble

a dense mineral form of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) which is formed from lime stone.

Martensite

refers to a solid solution of carbon in alpha-iron formed when steel gets cooled too rapidly for pearlite to form from austenite. It has been responsible for the hardness of quenched steel.

Masking
an analytical technique involving addition of a masking agent which stops interfering species participating in a reaction. Demasking is the reverse process e.g., breakdown of a cyanide complex with acid.

Mercurous chlorate
Hg2(ClO3)2, poisonous white crystals that decompose at 250°C; soluble in alcohol and water; explodes in contact with combustible substances. Also known as mercury chlorate.

Masurium
a former name for technetium

Mercuric compounds

compounds of mercury in its +2 oxidation state; e.g., mercuric chloride has been mercury (II) chloride HgCI2.

Mercurous bromide
HgBr, poisonous white powder, crystals, or fibrous mass; odourless and tasteless; darkens in light; soluble in hot sulphuric acid and fuming nitric acid, insoluble in alcohol and ether; used in medicine. Also known as mercury bromide.

Mercuric sulphate HgSO4
a toxic, white, crystalline powder, soluble in acids; used in medicine, as a catalyst, and for galvanic batteries. Also known as mercury persulfate;

Mercuric sulphide HgS
1. The black variety is a poisonous powder; insoluble in water, alcohol, and nitric acid, soluble in sodium sulfide solution; sublimes at 583­°C; used a s a pigment. Also known as a pigment. Also known as black mercury sulfide; ethiops mineral. 2.

The red variety is a poisonous powder; insoluble in water and alcohol; sublimes at 446°C; used as a medicine and pigment. Also known as Chinese vermilion; quicksilver vermilion; red mercury sulfide; vermilion.
mercuric thiocyanate.

 

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