Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Chemical symbol, Hg. Quicksilver; mercury. See
mercury .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) Quicksilver; mercury.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry, medicine The element
mercury .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
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Examples
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First, the budding neurosurgeon correctly spelled "hydrargyrum", as chemists call mercury or quicksilver.
SiliconIndia.com 2009
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Washington: India American teenager Kavya Shivashankar finally won it all in the televised US National Spelling Bee competition, nailing esoteric words from "hydrargyrum" to "Laodicean", coolly writing them down with her finger on her palm.
SiliconIndia.com 2009
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The symbol for mercury, Hg, was derived from the name, hydrargyrum.
Mercury (element) 2009
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Hg: the chemical symbol for mercury, from the Greek hydrargyrum.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010
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Dealt the tongue-twister, “hydrargyrum,” which means the element mercury, Kavya solved it by also asking, “Does it come from the Greek ‘hydro,’ meaning water?”
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"There is a channel in the spine of her blade, and in it runs a river of hydrargyrum - a metal heavier than iron, though it flows like water.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
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Those dang cheap fillings made from silver and mercury (symbols Ag and Hg (heh, didn't you always think hydrargyrum was a funny sounding word for mercury (oh! and did you know you can actually force the noble gases to bond with mercury by utilizing an electric discharge?))))
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& ficcitas, qu: e non dominantur in frigiditatem & hu. miditatem Mercurii: & ipfe Mercurius componitur ex 4. elcmentis, fed hydrargyrum non agit, igitur & '
Liber nouus de metallorum causis et transubstantiatione Thomas Morison 1593
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(The Alchemist made of hydrargyrum alloy, Wed 24 Jun,
B3ta 2009
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(The Alchemist made of hydrargyrum alloy, Wed 24 Jun,
B3ta 2009
mollusque commented on the word hydrargyrum
. . . Balneum Mariae, sublimation of hydrargyrum, mysterium conjunctionis, the Elixir!
--Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucault's Pendulum, p. 14
September 29, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word hydrargyrum
Souce of the chemical symbol for mercury, Hg. Mercury, quicksilver, liquid silver.
August 28, 2009