Cinnabar (HgS) was utilized as a pigment known as vermillion. It has a band gap of 2.20

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Cinnabar (HgS) was utilized as a pigment known as vermillion. It has a band gap of 2.20 eV near room temperature for the bulk solid. What wavelength of light (in nm) would a photon of this energy correspond to?

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Chemistry The Central Science

ISBN: 978-0134414232

14th Edition

Authors: Theodore Brown, H. LeMay, Bruce Bursten, Catherine Murphy, Patrick Woodward, Matthew Stoltzfus

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