Red mercury is coming back...
Undoubtly that's an hoax to protect other discovery and to work as
little
bells to each guy willing to speack about something they don't know.
An institute of St Petersburg has placed a patent in 1995 to produce
Hg2Sb2O7, good quality and stability (pyroantimoniate of mercury)...
This
patent has been published (not classified). Red-brown color...I
baught a
copy of this patent
to national Russian organisation for patents "SoyuzPatent", no
problem. I've
the translation in French if someone is interested I'm able to send
the
translation in French (you need to request it to my e-mail adress),
(easier
than Russian I suppose for a majority of this NG).
You gave the name of a guy been killed for that, he hasn't been
alone : in
1993 a plane sunk in Lugano's Lake at the boarder between Switzerland
and
Italy (5
persons...) Police concluded it was in connexion with a mafia deal
with Red
Mercury...
It was said company Promecologia in Ekaterinburg was the lonely
producer of
Hg2Sb2O7 under state license. I visited many times Ekaterinburg. This
company has fallen in bankruptcy some years ago.
Don't dream anymore about that.
A friend of mine, head of the Chair of inorganic chemistry in a
Russian
State University said : That's very dangerous for mice and rates...
Henri
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Supposedly the formula of "Red Mercury"
Did this ever exist or was it a post communist hoax ?
One theory came to me via AEC Pelindaba, that it was neutron
enriched
Mercury which could be used to miniturise nuclear devices.
Alan Kidger of Thor Chemicals was murdered over his involvement in
Red
Mercury.
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The way to approach this problem of verifying the existence and
reports
surrounding red mercury is the same as the approach to any dubiously
verifiable set of circumstances. Look for any authoritative record
concerning the amalgam involved and, if none exists, as I am sure
none does
in this case, look for any such record of the amalgamating compound,
Hg2Sb2O7.
The International Chemical Register No. for this is 20720-76-7. If
you try
to repeat the synthesis of this compound in accordance with Dr.
Sleight's
report of 1968 in the Journal of Inorganic Chemistry my bet is you'll
come
to the same conclusion about it as myself. You can produce the red-
brown
compound he describes with a low stability and X-ray analysis that do
not
match his specifications. Or you can stabilise it to a light grey
compound
with high stability (does not even melt below ~1,000 degrees C) which
provides an X-ray scan that certainly does match his specifications,
right
down to the relative intensities of the reflection peaks.
In short, Dr. Sleight appears to have lost HgO after producing
the
ternary oxide Hg2Sb2O7 and produced Hg3Sb4O13, a combination of the
meta-
and pyro-antimonate. Although this compound was hypothetical, my X-ray
analysis of the oxide expelled from the compound as it was stabilised
and
quantitative analyses of the initial product, the stabilised residue
and
lost oxide confirm its existence. I have repeated the entire process
5 times
without any deviation in the result. The final compound stains the
melting
surface of pyrex glass to a ruby-glass effect but, though it adsorbs
onto
the surface of mercury easily enough, I do not have the equipment to
pressurize it into the element and find out if it forms a stable
amalgam.
Steve Shires.
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Don't dream anymore about that.
By way of reply I should like to refer you to the introduction to
Part II of a book I have been writing since 1994 on this subject:-
'In April 1996 two things happened which gave new direction
to my researches into this compound. One was that a correspondent to
the ‘<dejanews>’ Internet website, Erick Singley, provided the
International Chemical Register (ICR) Number for it; 20720-76-7. The
other was that a book published in ’95, ‘The Mini-nuke Conspiracy’,
came to my attention. It contained the ICR number plus the name of the
chemist, Dr. Sleight, who had synthesized one or more allotropes of it
for the American explosives manufacturer Du Pont de Nemours, in ’68.
Using this information I easily found the chemical abstract (or note
concerning the experimental report) in volume 69 of the Chemical
Abstract Services’ (CAS) output, abstract number 71239v.
The description appearing against the ICR number would not
inspire much confidence in anyone unfamiliar with the one available
in ‘The Mini-nuke Conspiracy’, where it is described as ‘a mercury salt
of antimonic acid’:-
20720-76-7 Antimonic acid (H4Sb2O7 ), mercury (2+) salt (1:2)
H4O7 Sb2 .2Hg
However, anyone who had attempted to produce the compound
using reaction (2) on page 3 of Part I* would recognise the reactants
referred to. Unless they had a supply of oxygen available they would
also recall their observation of the ease with which mercury is
liberated from a compound when it is heated in solution. My own
experiences with this method were so disappointing that I did not even
include it in my test reports. The thing to remember about its
limitations is that they only obtain for the thermally unstable
allotropic forms of the compound. Another situation hardly calculated
to inspire confidence in the procedure is J.R. Partington’s reference
to antimonic and antimonious acids in his ‘Textbook of Inorganic
Chemistry’, where he states that their existence is ‘extremely
doubtful’. Antimonic acid’s formula appears against ‘Antimony
oxyhydrate’ in R.C. Weast’s ‘Handbook of Chemistry and Physics’.
Now, if the ICR description is considered inconclusive
what may be said of the one in the abstract? I had already examined the
CAS Subject Index for 1967-71 before April ’96 during the course of a
trawl through the service’s indices, looking for mercury salts of all
possible descriptions. The sought-after compound appeared as:-
mercury (2+) salt (1:2)[20720-76-7], crystal structure of,
69 :71239v '
* (2) 2HgO + H4Sb2O7 => Hg2Sb2O7 + H2O
Whatever else it may be, mercuric pyro-antimoniate is clearly not a
dream. As to the amalgam it produces when pressurized with mercury and
an actinide within a neutron-rich environment, this supposedly being
the means by which red mercury is produced, well, who knows?
Steve Shires.
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I want to make antimony mercury oxide. Who can help me?