We've been studying the interactions of natural organic matter from the Everglades and other locations with mercury in aqueous solutions and in sulfide minerals (HgS; cinnabar). Mahalingam ...

America was astonished by this mine after a century of not seeing that much in one location. it was once a big deal, but now ...

During his lifetime, Qin Shi Huang became obsessed with achieving immortality and sought the elusive elixir of life.

"Cinnabar is a natural ore primarily composed of mercury-containing compounds, and the chemical composition of mercury is mercury itself." According to the information provided by Chen, mercury ...

and is an ore of mercury or quicksilver. Artificially prepared cinnabar is much preferred to the native; as a pigment, because of its freedom from earthy impurities, and it has long been an object ...

The most common ore of mercury is called cinnabar. Its scientific name is mercury sulfide (HgS). In its pure, manmade form it's known as vermilion, which is a red pigment used in artist's paint.

It seems at this Copper Age site called Valencina, between about 2900 and 2650 B.C.E., ritual leaders intentionally ingested mercury-rich cinnabar for ceremonies or magic. More community members ...

One such component, cinnabar, which is primarily composed of mercury sulfide (HgS), has been used in various TCM formulations. Recent research has focused on understanding the neurobehavioral ...

The Shasta Indians never enjoyed a war fully unless they had first smeared their faces with reddish cinnabar (mercury sulfide), which they got from a big deposit in northern California.