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IT is well known that mercuric iodide exists in two crystalline forms, the stable red form being converted to the metastable yellow at 127° C.1. Recently, Sieskind2 has reported an orange modification which was isolated from both ethyl acetate and acetone.
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ZEITLIN, H., GOYA, H. Polymorphic Conversion of Mercuric Iodide on Alumina. Nature 183, 1041–1042 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831041a0
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