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Here are the key points about cinnabar and mercury from the passage: - Cinnabar (HgS) is the most common ore of mercury. It is a vermilion crystalline mineral. - Cinnabar is usually found in association with epithermal hot spring deposits. It is deposited by hydrothermal activity. - Cinnabar is the main source of metallic mercury production. To extract mercury, cinnabar ore is heated in a process called calcination. - During calcination, the sulfur is removed from cinnabar as sulfur dioxide gas, leavi
- Author
- John Michael Somorostro
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- EN