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Pronunciation
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Noun
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1. A silvery-colored metallic chemical element, liquid at room temperature, with atomic number 80 and symbol Hg.

Synonyms
azoth (in alchemy)
hydrargyrum (in medical and sometimes chemical use)
quicksilver (not in technical use)

Derived terms
top2
argental mercury
cadmium mercury cell
dichloromercury
dimercury
dimethylmercury
eka-mercury
ethylmercury
fulminate of mercury
mecuricals
mercurate
mercurial
mercuriate
mercuric
mercurify
mercurio-syphilis
mercurochrome
mercurous
mercury arc, mercury arc rectifier, mercury arc valve
mercury bichloride, mercury dichloride
mercury cadmium telluride
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mercury dichloride
mercury fulminate
mercury gilding
mercury goosefoot
mercury lamp
mercury perchloride
mercury poisoning
mercury pool
mercury protochloride
mercury rust
mercury selenide
mercury sulfide, mercury sulphide
mercury switch
mercury thermometer
mercury vapor lamp, mercury vapour lamp
mercury vapor pump, mercury vapour pump
mercury vapor rectifier, mercury vapour rectifier
methylmercury

Related terms
mercaptan
Mercury

Translations

Afrikaans: kwik
Albanian: mërkur
Arabic: ARchar|زئب� (zí�baq) m
Armenian: Õ½Õ¶Õ¤Õ«Õ¯ (sndik)
Basque: merkurioa
Belarusian: ����� (rtuts�)
Bosnian: živa
Breton: merkur, bevargant, arc'hant-bev m
Bulgarian: живак (živak), ме�к��ий (merkúrij) m
Catalan: mercuri
Chinese: 水� / 水� (sh�iyín), � (g�ng)
Cornish: arhans
Croatian: živa
Czech: rtuť
Danish: kviksølv
Dutch: kwik n, kwikzilver n
Esperanto: hidrargo
Estonian: elavhõbe
Faroese: kviksilvur
Finnish: elohopea
French: mercure m
Frisian: kwik n
Friulian: mercuri
Gallegan: mercurio
Georgian: �������� ����� (verts��lis tsqali)
German: Quecksilber m
Greek, Modern: �δ�ά�γ��ο� (ydrárgyros) m
Hebrew: �ספ�ת (kaspit) f
Hungarian: higany
Icelandic: kvikasilfur
Indonesian: merkurius
Interlingua: mercurio
Irish: mearcair
Italian: mercurio m
Japanese: 水� (����, suigín)
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Kashmiri: tãź
Kazakh: ��нап (synap)
Korean: �� (sueun)
Latin: hydrargyrum n
Latvian: dzīvsudrabs
Lithuanian: gyvsidabris m
Luxembourgish: quecksëlwer
Macedonian: жива (živa) f
Malay: merkuri
Maltese: merkurju
Manx: mercur
Mongolian: �лаан (ulaan)
Norwegian: kvikksølv
Polish: rt�� f
Portuguese: mercúrio m
Romanian: mercur n, hidrargir] � n, argint viu �
Russian: ����� (rtut�) f, �ид�а�ги��м (�idrárgirum) m
Scottish Gaelic: mearcair
Serbian: жива (živa) f
Slovak: ortuť f
Slovenian: živo srebro n
Spanish: mercurio m
Swedish: kvicksilver
Tajik: simob
Tamil: பாதர�ம� (p�taracam), தனிமம� (tanimam)
Telugu: పాదరస� (paadarasaM)
Thai: THchar|�รอ� (bpròt)
Turkish: cıva
Ukrainian: ����� (rtut�)
Uzbek: �имоб (simob)
Vietnamese: thuá»·
Welsh: mercwri
Urdu: پار� m

External links
For etymology and more information about the chemical element, refer to:
http://elements.vanderkrogt.net/elem/hg.html
(Many of the translations were taken from that site with permission from the author.)

See also
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blue mass
calomel
cinnabar
cinnabarite
corderoite
mid2
corrosive sublimate
Good King Henry
livingstonite
sublimate
thimerosal, thiomersal

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