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Meanings of mercury in English
Chemical element with symbol Hg and atomic number 80.
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Ancient Roman mythological god of trade, merchants, and travel.
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Examples for "quicksilver"
Examples for "quicksilver"
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Under the cloudy sky the waters had the steel-gray luster of quicksilver.
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Water clings to the side of a vessel; again, quicksilver does not.
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Why, the quicksilver gets into your blood; I think that's the way.
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One might have said that we were in a bath of quicksilver.
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The production, stylish in late 1950s mode, again showed its quicksilver merits.
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Results: HG employees and controls had a mean age of 51 years.
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These time comparisons suggested recent Hg increase in East Greenland polar bears.
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We find it likely that Hg emissions will increase in the future.
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Residents from other sites also reflected a certain level of Hg exposure.
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HG See also: The Fear -funny types discuss their darkest terrors.
Russian
bristol mercury Spanish
bristol mercury 
Usage of mercury in English
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Refined coal appears effective in reducing mercury emissions at actual power plants.
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For the same reason the pressure changes with different heights of mercury.
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He singled out mercury emissions from power plants as a high priority.
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In the Minamata case, a chemical company dumped mercury into a river.
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Jackson's EPA drafted regulations that limit mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants.
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Open burning of mercury is banned and personal protection equipment is compulsory.
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Solvay will replace a mercury-based process with membrane-based technology by late 2012.
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Small-scale miners use three-parts mercury to recover every one-part gold, he said.
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As they went up the mountain the mercury in the tube fell.
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The lowest to which the mercury descended in the barometer at Vacouas.
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Most important, said Steckling, was to introduce a mercury-free method of mining.
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De Grey says its drilling programme will not release mercury into waterways.
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Tests have shown that the mound does contain high levels of mercury.
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Genetic factors in patients with Alzheimer's disease are also associated with mercury.
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The mercury is 5 degrees below zero, and the aurora is glorious.
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We smirk that the words mercury and curative were once lumped together.
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Mercury through the time
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