Question #8e83b

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Feb 21, 2017

Mercuric bromide.........

Explanation:

Or mercury(II) bromide. And Hg2Br2 is mercurous bromide. What are the oxidation states of mercury in each salt?

Feb 21, 2017

HgBr2 is mercury (II) bromide.

Explanation:

Since bromide anions always have a 1 charge, and there are two bromide ions in the formula, the overall charge for the bromide part of the compound is 2. This compound is neutral, which means that the mercury cation must have a 2+ charge, and is therefore the mercury (II) cation.

Therefore, HgBr2 is mercury (II) bromide.

If you go to the following site, you will see that HgBr2 has many names, but usually it is called mercury (II) bromide. https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/24612#section=Top