II. On the isolation of the radical, mercuric methyl

Abstract

Dr. Frankland, in his valuable memoir communicated to the Royal Society, has pointed out that hydrargyro-methylium, zinc-ethylium, and analogous bodies may be regarded as formed upon the type of the metallic oxides, the oxygen of which he considered was repre­sented by methyl, ethyl, &c. The hypothetical radical hydrargyro-methylium, C 2 H 3 {Hg Hg, according to this view would correspond to numerous oxides, O {Hg. Hg.