Donovan's solution
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IUPAC name
Iodomercury; triiodoarsane
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Other names
Liquor hydriodatis arsenici et hydrargyri
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UN number | 1557 |
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AsHgI4 | |
Molar mass | 783.12948 |
Appearance | Clear, colourless, or pale yellow. Darkens with age. |
Boiling point | 403 °C (757 °F; 676 K) at 760 mmHg |
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Main hazards | Toxic |
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa). | |
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Donovan's solution is an inorganic compound prepared from arsenic triiodide and mercuric iodide.[1] Despite its name, it is a compound and not a solution.
Method[]
1g each of AsI3 and HgI2 with 0.9 sodium bicarbonate in water to make 100 ml.
Cooley's cyclopædia of practical receipts and ... information on the arts, manufactures, and trades gives a more complex method.[2]
Uses[]
Has been used in veterinary medicine to treat chronic diseases of the skin.[3] Also as a folk remedy.[4] Used during the 19th century to treat Lepra vulgaris[5] and psoriasis[6][7] in humans, taken internally.
References[]
- ^ Budavari, Susan (1989). "3413. Donovan's Solution". The Merck Index (11th ed.). Merck & Co., Inc. p. 537. ISBN 091191028X. LCCN 89060001.
- ^ (1880). "Solution". In Richard Vine Tuson (ed.). A cyclopædia of practical receipts and ... information on the arts, manufactures, and trades. II (6th ed.). p. 1525.
- ^ Oxtoby, David W.; H.P. Gillis; Allan Campion (2012). Principles of modern chemistry (7th ed.). Belmont, Calif.: Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning. p. 513. ISBN 978-0840049315.
- ^ "Donovan's solution". Chemical Dictionary Online. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
- ^ Sir Erasmus Wilson (1847). "Treatment of Lepra". On Diseases of the Skin (2nd ed.). John Churchill. p. 271.
- ^ (1881). "Psoriasis Treatment. Part 6". A Treatise On The Materia Medica And Therapeutics Of The Skin. Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. p. 254.
- ^ "Good Results of Donovan's Solution in Psoriasis". The Lancet. 70 (1770): 116. August 1857. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(02)38789-0.
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Categories:
- Inorganic compounds
- Arsenic(III) compounds
- Iodides
- Mercury compounds