Meanings of use mercury in English

In many developing nations gold prospectors use mercury in small-scale mines.

They use mercury and nitric acid, which also cause breathing problems, to leach precious ore out of sediment.

Often, miners use mercury to extract the gold, then turn it into semi-pure nuggets of dore (pronounced door-ray) to sell to traders.

If we should use mercury, we would construct a cubical vessel to contain it, and use it as we propose to use the lead block.

The conductive coating of gold is removed using mercury, a non-wetting agent.

The lamp shown here at General Electric's Schenectady Works used mercury.

He perceived that syphillis was caused by contagion and used mercury to cure it.

He perceived that syphilis was caused by contagion and used mercury to cure it.

Yes; he used mercury, and found that it rose in the tube just thirty inches.

However, most of the singing performances in Bohemian Rhapsody use Mercury's own vocals, about which Malek is sanguine.

Miners have used mercury to separate gold for decades, but part of it is lost in the process, contaminating rivers and soils.

The advantage of using mercury is, however, counterbalanced by the difficulty of obtaining it in such large quantities as would be necessary.

A lump of gold amalgam extracted by female workers using mercury at the Osiri-Matanda gold mine in Nyatike in Migori county, Kenya.

The pore size distribution was measured using mercury porosimetry for a carbonate apatite gel and a pressed powder pellet of a commercial hydroxyapatite.

In 1714, German physicist Gabriel Fahrenheit made a scale for measuring temperature using mercury in an enclosed glass tube, creating the first modern thermometer.