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Mercury(0)

7439-97-6Hg200.59 g/mol
ElementChEBI source record

Elemental mercury of oxidation state zero. — ChEBI

Safety references

Safety documents & references

1 indexed references
JP · NITE

Government GHS classification

23B5578 · FY2011

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Identity & molecular properties

Source-linked values
CAS number7439-97-6ChEBI ↗
Molecular formulaHgChEBI ↗
Molar mass200.59 g/molChEBI ↗
Monoisotopic mass201.97064 DaChEBI ↗
Formal charge0ChEBI ↗
ChEBI identifierCHEBI:16170ChEBI ↗

Cross-source molecular data

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Molar mass200.59 g/molPubChem ↗
Exact mass201.970644 DaPubChem ↗

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Names & structural identifiers

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mercury(0)
mercury
QSHDDOUJBYECFT-UHFFFAOYSA-N
[Hg]
InChI=1S/Hg

Names & synonyms

mercury

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Classification & relationships

ChEBI ontology

Roles recorded in ChEBI

neurotoxin

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Safety classification · Japan

NITE / Japanese government
Japan · FY2011 source classification
Mercury · 23B5578
EndpointReported classification
Acute toxicity (Inhalation: Vapours)Category 1
Serious eye damage/eye irritationCategory 2
Skin sensitizationCategory 1
Reproductive toxicityCategory 1A
Specific target organ toxicity - Single exposureCategory 1 (respiratory system, cardiovascular system, kidney, liver, central nervous system)
Specific target organ toxicity - Repeated exposureCategory 1 (nervous system, cardiovascular system, blood, liver, gingiva)

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Mass ↔ amount of substance

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Equivalent amount
0.00498529 mol

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Elemental composition

Theoretical mass fractions
Hg
Mercury · 1 atom
100.00%

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Sources & record history

Checked 27 Sep 2026
EMBL-EBI ChEBI · CHEBI:16170

Release 255, 9 September 2026. ChEBI three-star (manually annotated) source entry. View original record ↗ · CC BY 4.0

NCBI PubChem · CID 23931 · retrieved 2026-09-27

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