Mercaptans

Organic sulphydrates. They form insoluble precipitates with mercury salts, whence the name, and are liquids of horrible odor. ETHYL MERCAPTAN, C2H2SH (q.v.). Mercati, MICHELE, 1541-1593. Medical writer at Rome. Mercat or (KREMER), GERARD, 1512-1594. rapher. Flemish geog