Synonyms:
mercury, quicksilver, hydrargyrum, Hg, atomic_number_80
Meaning: a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
Usage examples
Red oxide of mercury, 12 grains; spermaceti ointment, 1 oz.
Even mercury can be frozen in this way by a combination of chemicals.
Then give sulphide of mercury, 3 grains, two or three times on alternate nights.
The main pipe, which was full of mercury, was about seven and one-half feet from the floor.
In the early days of work on the incandescent lamp, also, there was considerable trouble with mercury.
But in reading the general barometer of the party as regarded himself, he did not find that the mercury went up.
In fact, the mercury, which had risen in the instrument as fast as we descended, had stopped at twenty-nine inches.
We take the 'Leeds Intelligencer,' Tory, and the 'Leeds Mercury,' Whig, edited by Mr. Baines, and his brother, son-in-law, and his two sons, Edward and Talbot.
"When the first lamp-works were started at Menlo Park, one of my experiments seemed to show that hot mercury gave a better vacuum in the lamp than cold mercury.