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What does mercury mean?

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Noun
  1. A metal.
    1. A silvery-colored, toxic, metallic chemical element, liquid at room temperature, with atomic number 80 and symbol Hg. [from 14th c.]
    2. (sciences, historical) One of the elemental principles formerly thought to be present in all metals. [from 15th c.]
    3. (with definite article) Ambient pressure or temperature (from the use of mercury in barometers and thermometers). [from 17th c.]
    4. (obsolete) Liveliness, volatility. [17th-18th c.]
  2. A plant.
    1. An annual plant, annual mercury (Mercurialis annua), formerly grown for its medicinal properties; French mercury, herb mercury. [from 14th c.]
    2. A similar edible plant, Chenopodium bonus-henricus, otherwise known as English mercury or allgood. [from 15th c.]
    3. (US, regional) The poison oak or poison ivy. [from 18th c.]
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This wavelength also coincides with a peak in the mercury lamp spectrum and with the Soret band of the PpIX absorption spectrum.
Babies who are exposed to mercury while in the womb can suffer severe damage to the nervous system and may die.
For example, tobacco plants can absorb heavy metals, mercury, copper, and lead.
Avoid king mackerel, which accumulates more toxins, including mercury, than other mackerel species because of its size.
The acetylides of silver, copper, mercury, and gold are detonated by heat, friction, or shock.
The minute the mercury soars, red wines, especially big reds, start to turn volatile and taste soupy and mawkish.

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