Mercuric Nitrate Properties

Description

Mercuric nitrate is a toxic colorless or white soluble crystalline mercury(II) salt of nitric acid. It was used to treat fur to make felt in a process called 'carroting'. It is an oxidizing agent. It is also used as an analytical reagent, in bronzing, as a nitrating agent, and in organic synthesis. It has antiseptic and miticidal properties; once used topically in the treatment of demodectic mange in dogs, but replaced by safer and more effective agents.