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One of my biggest coups was “getting ahold” of some very toxic mercuric oxide from the school lab.

CYANAMIDE, NC�NH2, the amide of normal cyanic acid, obtained by the action of ammonia on cyanogen chloride, bromide or iodide, or by the desulphurization of thio-urea with mercuric oxide; it is generally prepared by the latter process.

One of my biggest coups was “getting hold” of some very toxic mercuric oxide from the school lab.

I kept “borrowing” more mercuric oxide, and cooking up a supply of the tiny globules until I had a quarter-size blob.

Thus, when he found that a candle burned more brightly, and mice thrived, in the atmosphere created with his container of heated mercuric oxide, he thought this atmosphere was "dephlogisticated air."