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Herein, the surface adsorption of Hg0 on pyrite (FeS2) is innovatively converted into a chemical reaction through intermittent thermal treatment and water washing, enabling approximately 100% of the lattice S in FeS2 to participate in Hg0 capture. Accordingly, the Hg0 capture capacity of pyrite is enhanced by more than 1 order of magnitude to 1671 mg g\u20131, and gaseous Hg0 in flue gas is ultimately mineralized into high-grade cinnabar. Thermal treatment promotes the cleavage of Fe\u2013S bonds following Hg0 adsorption, generating highly unsaturated Fe coordination sites, whereas water washing induces the dissociation of these highly unsaturated Fe coordination structures to regenerate unsaturated sulfur coordination sites for subsequent Hg0 adsorption. Therefore, the saturated S coordination beneath the surface can gradually participate in Hg0 adsorption due to the denudation of the pyrite surface by the process of Hg0 adsorption, thermal treatment, and water washing. 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