Oxygen: Red Oxide of Mercury Heated (Priestley's Reaction)

The reaction by which Priestley first obtained oxygen, as Thorpe's Dictionary (1913) gives it: heated, red oxide of mercury splits into mercury vapour, which condenses, and oxygen. Mercury vapour is poisonous: fume hood. The picture: our diagram.

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