Mercury into mercury oxide How can I turn mercury metal into mercury oxide? I know that many metals will react with oxygen if enough heat is supplied in the presence of oxygen. If I heated up mercury enough and also supplied oxygen from my oxygen tank, would that result in mercury oxide? Also how about lead? Thank you
If you give enough oxygen to let it react to mercury, it still won't work just like copper and sliver. Because they are unreactive metals.

However, it will form mercury oxide when mercury and oxygen react at 350°C as the chemical equation below.

$\ce{2Hg + O_2 -&gt; 2HgO}$

P.S: The mercury oxide will decompose back to mercury and oxygen at 400°C.

Lead is a rather more reactive subatances. So, try burning it. If it don't work, means you need a higher temperature.