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- n. The element mercury.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Quicksilver; mercury.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Chemical symbol, Hg. Quicksilver; mercury. See mercury.
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- n. a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
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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.
First, the budding neurosurgeon correctly spelled "hydrargyrum", as chemists call mercury or quicksilver.
The symbol for mercury, Hg, was derived from the name, hydrargyrum.
Hg: the chemical symbol for mercury, from the Greek hydrargyrum.
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?”
"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.
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?))))
& ficcitas, qu: e non dominantur in frigiditatem & hu. miditatem Mercurii: & ipfe Mercurius componitur ex 4. elcmentis, fed hydrargyrum non agit, igitur & '
(The Alchemist made of hydrargyrum alloy, Wed 24 Jun,