The rock needed to be powdered so we could get ... The most common ore of mercury is called cinnabar. Its scientific name is mercury sulfide (HgS). In its pure, manmade form it's known as ...

The results confirmed that the pigment was cinnabar, adhered with a protein-based binder. Cinnabar is a toxic mineral ...

In a first-of-its-kind discovery, archaeologists in China have unearthed the 2,200-year-old burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, a toxic red substance. Cinnabar is a ...

Research led by Jilin University and Texas A&M University has documented the first known case of cinnabar-stained teeth in antiquity. Analysis of a burial from approximately 2,200 years ago in the ...

The research, published in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, reveals the red stains on the woman’s teeth were caused by the mercury-based mineral cinnabar. Cinnabar ...