mercuric sulfide: Meaning and Definition of

mercu'ric sul'fide

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  1. a crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous compound, HgS, occurring as a coarse, black powderor as a fine, bright-scarlet powder: used chiefly as a pigment and as a source of the free metal.
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