Synonym: Hg, Mercury, atomic number 80, hydrargyrum, quicksilver. Similar words: mercurial, laffer curve, undercurrent, herculean, buttercup, undercut, power cut, percussion. Meaning: [mɜr'kjərɪ /mɜː'kjʊrɪ] n. 1. a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures 2. (Roman mythology) messenger of Jupiter and god of commerce; counterpart of Greek Hermes 3. the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun 4. temperature measured by a mercury thermometer.
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31. The current advert for the Washburn Mercury guitar revolts me to the very depths of my soul.
32. Mercury thus contains a much greater abundance of denser materials, the strong implication being that it is rich in metallic iron.
33. Now, Venusruled Libra has been sundered from Virgo, whose lord is androgynous Mercury.
34. There are some indications that the interior of Mercury is hot, and other indications that the outer regions have cooled rapidly.
35. Mercury says to expect an announcement in a couple of months.
36. The mercury method, so popular in the Roman period for gilding, can also be used for silvering bronze and brass.
37. From a daytime 70-75F the mercury drops to below freezing.
38. When radar was directed toward Mercury in the early I960s the situation changed overnight.
39. They can be useful for tours of asteroids, bringing samples back from Mars, going to Pluto quickly and to Mercury.
40. The results were wholly unexpected: Mercury has small, reflective polar caps with the distinctive depolarization behavior of ice.
41. Mercury was believed to possess magical properties and some regarded it as the quintessence of the human body and of all substances.
42. Whatever markings were seen, they did not shift detectably across the face of Mercury in the course of a night.
43. The reservoir would have submerged cedar forests and rapids which attract 10,000 tourists a year, while releasing mercury from submerged ores.
44. The mean density of Mercury indicates that its interior is substantially different from the interiors of the other terrestrial planets.
45. There was a mercury pool for losers to reflect in while they blew their brains out.
46. It is a poisonous heavy metal like lead or mercury, but only slightly radioactive.
47. A small vessel containing mercury is added from which extend two hollow copper wires.
48. The mercury is often discharged into streams, where it accumulates in the form of methyl mercury.
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49. The first signal to arrive back at Earth is the mirror-like reflection of the small area about the sub-Earth point on Mercury.
50. Lead, mercury, cadmium and dioxin levels were to be cut by 70 percent by 1995.
51. Indeed, Mercury is in a form of synchronous rotation around the Sun.
52. The photographic mapping of the accessible half of Mercury was a great success.
53. It is certainly possible that Mercury once had a molten iron core which has since partly or wholly solidified.
54. By a government licence under the Act, Mercury Communications, a private company, was authorized to establish a communications system.
55. Levels of mercury in the Danube are below those in the Thames.
56. When he found that his theory exactly predicted the path of Mercury, he was beside himself with happiness for days.
57. The mercury hovered around ninety, and so did the humidity.
58. That same month, the corporation announced new high-speed cable and satellite services of the kind that Mercury plans to offer.
59. Jezrael could still see the lights of sunflowers strung out like mercury on rose satin.
60. The calculated value is less than the upper limit from Mariner 10, indicating that Mercury is close to hydrostatic equilibrium.
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