Canadian English Meaning of mercury
Mercury
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Nearest Words of mercury
- mercury barometer => Mercury barometer
- mercury cell => Mercury cell
- mercury chloride => Mercury chloride
- mercury fulminate => Mercury fulminate
- mercury poisoning => mercury poisoning
- mercury program => Mercury program
- mercury thermometer => Mercury thermometer
- mercury-contaminated => mercury-contaminated
- mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer => Mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer
- mercury-in-glass thermometer => Mercury-in-glass thermometer
Definitions and Meaning of mercury in English
mercury (n)
a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
(Roman mythology) messenger of Jupiter and god of commerce; counterpart of Greek Hermes
the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun
temperature measured by a mercury thermometer
mercury (n.)
A Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence.
A metallic element mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar, one of its ores. It is a heavy, opaque, glistening liquid (commonly called quicksilver), and is used in barometers, thermometers, ect. Specific gravity 13.6. Symbol Hg (Hydrargyrum). Atomic weight 199.8. has a molecule which consists of only one atom. It was named by the alchemists after the god Mercury, and designated by his symbol, /.
One of the planets of the solar system, being the one nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is about 36,000,000 miles. Its period is 88 days, and its diameter 3,000 miles.
A carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger; hence, also, a newspaper.
Sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness.
A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe.
mercury (v. t.)
To wash with a preparation of mercury.
FAQs About the word mercury
Mercury
a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures, (Roman mythology) messenger of Jupiter an
No synonyms found.
No antonyms found.
mercurous chloride => mercurous chloride, mercurous => mercurous, mercurochrome => Mercurochrome, mercurism => mercurism, mercurifying => quicksilver,
