Wiktionary
alt. (context inorganic compound English) The sulfide of mercury, HgS, that occurs as the mineral cinnabar. n. (context inorganic compound English) The sulfide of mercury, HgS, that occurs as the mineral cinnabar.
Usage examples of "mercuric sulfide".
If Raunchy had become mercuric sulfide, Hellfire was closer to fulminate of mercury: handle with extreme caution.
What passes for air on Venus has layers of red mercuric sulfide and mercurous chloride in the lower reaches, and when you get above them to those pretty fluffy clouds tourists see on the way down, you find that some of them are droplets of sulfuric and hydrochloric and hydrofluoric acid.
We still had a problem with the sulfur needed, and were importing it from Hungary in the form of cinnabar, mercuric sulfide.
Part of its design was obviously enameled with orange-red mercuric sulfide: cinnabar.
It was of formed crystal brightly enameled with orange-red mercuric sulfide: cinnabar.