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mercurial
  1. (obsolete) Any of the plants known as mercury. [13th-17th c.]
  2. (astrology) Someone born under the influence of Mercury. [from 16th c.]
  3. (now historical) A preparation of mercury, especially as a treatment for syphilis. [from 17th c.]
mercurification
  1. The process or operation of obtaining the mercury, in its fluid form, from mercuric minerals.
  2. (chemistry) The act or process of compounding, or the state of being compounded, with mercury.
mercury
  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.]
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Avoid king mackerel, which accumulates more toxins, including mercury, than other mackerel species because of its size.”
      “Power generated from fossil fuels causes smog, mercury pollution, acid rain and global warming.”
      “This wavelength also coincides with a peak in the mercury lamp spectrum and with the Soret band of the PpIX absorption spectrum.”
mercurammonium
  1. (chemistry) A radical regarded as derived from ammonium by the substitution of mercury for a portion of the hydrogen.
mercuriation
  1. (chemistry) Any reaction that introduces a covalent mercury bond into a compound
mercuriocyclization
  1. (chemistry) Any reaction that involves both cyclization and mercuriation
mercurialization
  1. (medicine) A treatment with the metal mercury (now known to be toxic).
mercurialist
  1. (medicine) A doctor who uses mercury or supports its use in medicine.
mercurialness
mercurocuprate
  1. (inorganic chemistry) Any of several cuprates that contain mercury
mercurialism
  1. Chronic mercury poisoning.
mercuriality
  1. Mercurial behaviour.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “But Bazzana is conscious of dealing with an extraordinary individual, one whose extraordinariness was bound up with his mercuriality and multiplicity.”
      “But he added that he'd always fancied himself mercurial, and mercuriality is hard to come by when you're playing the same character for 10 years straight.”
      “Because the values, lifestyles and tendency to networked mercuriality of the new generation means that, if they started from scratch, they would not build the same things their grandfathers did.”
mercuriocyclizations
mercurializations
  1. plural of mercurialization
mercurammoniums
  1. plural of mercurammonium
mercurocuprates
  1. plural of mercurocuprate
mercurialists
  1. plural of mercurialist
mercuriations
  1. plural of mercuriation
mercurialities
mercurials
  1. plural of mercurial
  2. Examples:
    1. “With the elimination of the volatile mercurials, most fungicides now approved for use on seed are classified as nonvolatile.”
      “In refractory HF with anasarca, hyperchloremic acidosis was induced to potentiate the effect of intravenous mercurials.”
      “A few attempts have been made to demonstrate the action of water channels in roots such as by closing them with mercurials.”
mercuries
  1. plural of mercury
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world.”
      “The Mercuries, exhausted by looking out of window, are reposing in the hall and hang their heavy heads, the gorgeous creatures, like overblown sunflowers.”
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