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Why HgS is red in colour?

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The color in transition metal sulphides comes from absorption of light that leads to excitation of an electron from a filled valence band to an empty conduction band. . ... Since, the band gap decreases from ZnS to HgS, the colour of ZnS is white, CdS is yellow and HgS is black

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