Mercury Ore
notes: label: Description
content: The U.S. Geological Survey transferred seven samples of cinnabar (or mercury sulphide) to the Smithsonian in 1947. This is one of those samples. It came from New Almaden, California.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: from
content: United States: California, Guadalupe Mines
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.319201
label: catalog number
content: 319201
label: accession number
content: 175148
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mercury Ore
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 3 in x 4 in; 7.62 cm x 7.62 cm x 10.16 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 4 1/8 in x 3 1/8 in; 7.62 cm x 10.4775 cm x 7.9375 cm