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Cinnabar is the more stable form, and is a structure akin to that of HgO: each Hg center has two short Hg−S bonds (each 2.36 Å), and four longer Hg···S contacts (with 3.10, 3.10, 3.30 and 3.30 Å separations). In addition, HgS is found in a black, non-cinnabar polymorph (metacinnabar) that has the zincblende structure. [5]
The hard, green leaves are set alternately along the branches, more or less directed upwards, oval or heart-shaped with an entire margin near the flowers and bluntly oblong and with up to six bony teeth at the tip lower down, 2–8 cm (0.79–3.15 in) long and 2–4½ cm (0.8–1.8 in) wide, softly hairy at first, becoming hairless.
Detail of an individual flower showing the white fruit that the genus is named after. Photo: Tony Rebelo. Leucospermum differs from genera such as Protea, Leucadendron, Mimetes, Diastella, Paranomus, Serruria, and Orothamnus by having the flower heads in the axils of the leaves (although often very near the tip of the branch), small and inconspicuous bracts subtending the head, brightly ...
The St John's Mine is a mineral extraction site approximately three miles north of the city of Vallejo in Solano County, California, United States. The St John's site was used for extraction of cinnabar in the early 1900s. [1] The St. John's Mine is classified as a medium priority mine from the standpoint of environmental oversight. [2]
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Cinnabar is the common bright scarlet to brick-red form of mercury(II) sulfide. Cinnabar may also refer to: Cinnabar, the color of the mineral; Cinnabar, Queensland, a locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia; Cinnabar moth (Tyria jacobaeae), a brightly coloured arctiid moth; Cinnabar Theater, a theater in Petaluma, California, USA
The Wakasugiyama Cinnabar Mine (若杉山辰砂採掘遺跡, Wakasugiyama shinshasaikutsu iseki) is an archaeological site with the traces of a late Yayoi to early Kofun period cinnabar production site, located in the Suii neighborhood of the city of Anan, Tokushima on the island of Shikoku in Japan.
Denver City is a city located in Yoakum County in the far western portion of the U.S. state of Texas, near the New Mexico boundary. It is named for the petroleum company Denver Productions. The population was 4,470 at the 2020 census, [4] down from 4,479 at the 2010 census. The city is located at the intersection of Texas State Highways 214 and 83.