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US
/ˈmɝkjɝi/
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[ UK /mˈɜːkjʊɹi/ ]
[ UK /mˈɜːkjʊɹi/ ]
NOUN
- a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
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temperature measured by a mercury thermometer
the mercury was falling rapidly
How To Use mercury In A Sentence
- According to the EPA, fish at the top of the aquatic food chain bioaccumulate methylmercury to a level approximately 1 million to 10 million times greater than dissolved concentrations found in surrounding waters. Field and Stream Report: The Truth about Mercury and the Fish You Eat
- Cayenne pepper, which easily loses its red colour, was tinted with cinnabar, an extremely poisonous mercury compound.
- Mercury is thermally desorbed from solid samples, trapped on an in-line gold trap, and subsequently determined by cold-vapour atomic absorption spectrometry.
- Mercury promises success when you write about a topic you hold dear. The Sun
- This happens around the time that Mercury arrives at that part of its orbit which places it closest to the Sun (called perihelion ), where it's orbital speed can briefly exceed its rotational speed.
- Davenant's face was disfigured—his nose had been eaten away—by the mercury vapor he inhaled as a treatment for a case of syphilis. Pens at the Ready
- The unit of measurement is actually millimeters of mercury, and that figure of 120 just means the pressure is high enough to hold up a column of mercury 120 mm high.
- These elements include mercury, bromine, cadmium, indium, thallium, lead, and bismuth.
- Mercury merges with the sun to give you an independent attitude. The Sun
- UV light is produced by a Mercury arc lamp, 28 samples can be simultaneously irradiated. The times needed for irradiation are controlled automatically.