Cinnabar
compound
HgS
The vivid red ore of mercury, prized as a pigment for millennia
Ground into vermilion pigment, cinnabar coloured the lips of Roman statues and the lacquerware of ancient China.
Material
Gallery canvas set in a solid wood floating frame.
Frame
Brown
$70.00
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Crystallography
| Catalogue identity | Cinnabar — P3₂21 |
| Formula | HgS |
| Crystal system | trigonal |
| Space group | P 31 2 1 |
| Lattice (a, b, c) Å | 4.16, 4.16, 9.54 |
| Angles (α, β, γ) ° | 90, 90, 120 |
| Density (g/cm³) | 8.09 |
Structure data: Crystallography Open Database · Public domain (CC0)