Making mercuric oxide from mercuric sulfate

In this video we are making emrcury(II) oxide which can be used as a precursor to all sorts of mercury salts.

Warning: The mercuric oxide might be contaminated with basic mercury sulfate because we tried to make mercuric acetate and a yellow insoluble solid was formed which we filtered off. The yellow solid, like basic mercury sulfate, was insoluble in water and hot acetic acid but it did easily dissolve in hydrochloric acid. This might also explain the incredibly high yield despite spilling a lot of the product while drying and leaving behind a substantial amount in the filter paper.

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