Mercury (element) long periods at elevated temperatures. It reverts to the elements upon heating near 400 °C, as was demonstrated by Joseph Priestley in an early synthesis of pure oxygen. Hydroxides of mercury are poorly characterized, as they are for its neighbors gold and silver. Being a soft metal, mercury forms very stable derivatives with the heavier chalcogens. Preeminent is mercury(II) sulfide, HgS, which occurs in nature as the ore cinnabar and is the brilliant pigment vermillion. Like ZnS, HgS crystallizes in two forms, the reddish cubic form and the black zinc blende form. The latter sometimes occurs naturally as metacinnabar. Mercury(II)
Ore extension which means that "δ" is a homomorphism of abelian groups satisfying Then the Ore extension "R"["x";"σ","δ"], also called a skew polynomial ring, is the noncommutative ring obtained by giving the ring of polynomials "R"["x"] a new multiplication, subject to the identity If "δ" = 0 (i.e., is the zero map) then the Ore extension is denoted "R"["x"; "σ"]. If "σ" = 1 (i.e., the identity map) then the Ore extension is denoted "R"["x","δ"] and is called a differential polynomial ring. The Weyl algebras are Ore extensions, with "R" any commutative polynomial ring, "σ" the identity ring endomorphism, and "δ" the