Meanings of fill with mercury in English

The tube was filled with mercury and inverted over a cup of mercury.

I went and got my thermometer, one of the old-fashioned ones filled with mercury.

In the past, these thermometers were filled with mercury.

A eudiometer tube is filled with mercury and inverted in a vessel of the same liquid.

Soraya, nursing a black coffee, watched Arkadin's hips moving as if they were filled with mercury.

In large iron kettles filled with mercury are placed huge stones, and these stones do not sink.

Each equalizer has a bore in it half- filled with mercury, working a good deal like a carpenter's level.

167, a U-shaped glass tube half filled with mercury.

We then replaced the porcelain dish in which the curved escape tube of A had been plunged, by a vessel filled with mercury.

A cylinder filled with water (a) was connected by means of tubing (b) to a U-tube, or manometer (c), filled with mercury.

A capsule of carbon filled with mercury, which formed the positive electrode of the electric lamp, has a carbon point brought down upon it.

The transmitter consists of a long glass tube, A, closed at one end and communicating through the other with a receptacle filled with mercury.

An ordinary upright barometer is simply a straight tube of glass filled with mercury or quicksilver, and turned upside-down in a small cup of mercury.

His apparatus consisted of a glass bulb fitted with a neck "two cub its" (or about 40 inches) high and filled with mercury.

'It consists,' the abbe continues, 'of a bent glass tube filled with mercury, which rises and falls according to the weather.

"Yes," was the reply, "simply a glass tube about thirty-three or thirty-four inches long, closed at the top, and filled with mercury.