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mercury (chemical)
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mercury (s) (noun), mercuries (pl)
1. A heavy metallic element that is silver-white and poisonous: Mercury, also termed "quicksilver" and is liquid at ordinary temperatures, is normally used in scientific instruments, in batteries, and in dental amalgam.
2. A Roman god: Mercury, a diety of Rome, served as a bearer of news and messages to other gods, and is also known for eloquence, travel, cunning, theft, and commerce.
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Messenger of the gods: Hermes, Mercury
Greek: Hermes (god)Mercury caduceus.
Latin: Mercury (god)

Messenger of the gods, god of commerce (trade) and thieves; also, the god of science, eloquence, cleverness, travel, and thievery.

Symbols: Winged cap, winged sandals, and a caduceus (a winged staff with two serpents twined around it, said to suggest intercourse) which some say should not be used to represent medicine or medical organizations.



Greek: Asclepius (god)Aesculapius with snake on staff.
Latin: Aesculapius (god)

The Aesculapius staff is considered to be the appropriate symbol of medicine, not the Mercury caduceus. The Hermes or Mercury symbol is incorrectly used by most U.S. medical organizations.




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Chemical Element: mercury
(Latin: named for the Roman god Mercurius; the symbol is from Latin hydrargyrum, "liquid silver"; liquid metal)
Mercury, words from myths
(messenger of the Roman gods; first planet from the sun)
caduceus +
(Latin: the wand of a herald, herald's staff; specifically, the wand of Hermes [Greek] and Mercury [Latin])
herm-, herme-
(Greek: Hermes, the son of Zeus and Maia, the god of commerce and messenger of the gods in Greek mythology; identified by the Romans as Mercury; however, some of the words in this unit come from Hermes tris megistos, Hermes Trismegistus, literally, "Hermes, Thrice the Greatest" referring to the Egyptian god Thoth, who was identified with the Greek god Hermes, of science and arts)
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dropping mercury electrode, dropping-mercury electrode
An electrode in which a drop of mercury, in the course of its formation, acts as the electrode surface.

It is therefore a fresh surface and of a small area, both advantages in a cathode (terminal or electrode at which electrons enter a system) for polarography or a method for analyzing the composition of a dilute electrolytic solution.

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fulminate of mercury
A gray crystalline powder that when dry explodes under percussion or heat and is used in detonators and as a high explosive.
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Hermes, messenger of the Greek gods, who became Mercury, messenger of the Roman gods
See this Roman god, Mercury and his connections with the planets.
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