Red Mercury? A reply to Fotiadis Vladimiros' query of 12/10/2001

[steveshires]

Fotiadis Vladimiros wrote:
>
>Does anybody know the chemical structure of the RED MERCURY?
>What exactly this compound is it?

Supposedly it is an amalgam of the crystalline powdered form of
Mercuric Pyro-antimonate, Hg2Sb2O7. However, the description of the
method of production and the density attributed to it, 20.20 g/cc,
thought to be achieved by applying a pressure of 5 atmospheres(maybe)
to it, is not consistent with mercury's compressibility factor. It is
therefore probably best to consider the compound as a separate issue
from the amalgam, for now at least.

Refer to the Chemical Abstracts Service's Number
Section for 1965-1971:-

20720-76-7 Antimonic acid (H4Sb2O7), mercury(2+)salt(1:2)
H4O7Sb2.2Hg

The CAS Subject Index for 1967-1971 has (page 2785s):-

mercury(2+) salt (1:2)[20720-76-7], crystal structure of, 69: 71239v

whilst the Chemical Abstracts themselves include an entry in volume
69,
for 1968, on page 6661 beginning:-

71239v New ternary oxides of mercury with the pyrochlore
structure. Sleight, A.W. (E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.,
Wilmington, Del.) Inorg. Chem. 1968, 7(9), 1704-8 (Eng). Three new
ternary oxides of Hg- Hg2Nb2O7, Hg2Ta2O7 and Hg2S2O7 (sic) - have
been
prepd. and characterized.......

An enquiry sent to CAS drew a response stating that:-

'....."Hg2S2O7" appeared as a typographical error for "Hg2SbO7"'(!)

Steve Shires.

[serj....@gmail.com]

My name is Sergey. I'm from Russia. This red mercury is only in Russian. All those who say that they have mercury, they are lying. If someone is interested in the red mercury, I can provide it. Contact me serj....@gmail.com +9890389005 Whats app

[dr.paul...@gmail.com]

On Monday, 24 October 2016 13:52:50 UTC+1, serj....@gmail.com wrote:
> My name is Sergey. I'm from Russia. This red mercury is only in Russian. All those who say that they have mercury, they are lying. If someone is interested in the red mercury, I can provide it. Contact me serj....@gmail.com +9890389005 Whats app

As anyone capable of googling it can see from wikipedia that it's only a hoax and anything you can sell as "red mercury" will be virtually worthless.

[Martin Brown]

It will make the guy selling it rich if he finds a buyer and anyone
suckered by this scam is unlikely to admit to having been taken in.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

[dlzc]

Dear dr.paul...:

On Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 4:41:56 PM UTC-7, dr.paul...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, 24 October 2016 13:52:50 UTC+1, serj....@gmail.com wrote:

...

> As anyone capable of googling it can see from
> wikipedia that it's only a hoax and anything you
> can sell as "red mercury" will be virtually worthless.

Which is why I had his post flagged as spam (in Google Groups anyway, which keeps it from being indexed), and thanks to you and Martin too, you copied it in its entirety, link and all.

Seriously, folks...

David A. Smith

[Martin Brown]

Anyone daft enough to buy red mercury deserves what they get.

It is in there up with Hendershot generators, perpetual motion kits,
antigravity machines and Rossi's LENR eCat scam.

Never underestimate the stupidity of people. There is always a sucker
available to buy something that sounds too good to be true.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

[dlzc]

Dear Martin Brown:

On Friday, October 28, 2016 at 10:08:13 AM UTC-7, Martin Brown wrote:
...
> Anyone daft enough to buy red mercury deserves what they get.
>
> It is in there up with Hendershot generators, perpetual
> motion kits, antigravity machines and Rossi's LENR eCat
> scam.
>
> Never underestimate the stupidity of people. There is
> always a sucker available to buy something that sounds
> too good to be true.

It could be directly called "snake oil". But eliminating cognates, and internet links to it, cuts off the abuse of usenet for advertising. Just hoping for some minimal editing.

David A. Smith

[nabil...@live.it]

Salve. Mi può contattare al numero 00393889996010 su Whatsapp. Grazie