mercury

Nouns

  • (n) a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures atomic number 80, Hg, hydrargyrum, quicksilver,
  • (n) (Roman mythology) messenger of Jupiter and god of commerce; counterpart of Greek Hermes
  • (n) the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun
  • (n) temperature measured by a mercury thermometer
    • the mercury was falling rapidly

Synonyms

atomic number 80 Hg hydrargyrum quicksilver

Words of close approximity

mercury barometer mercury cell mercury chloride mercury-contaminated mercury fulminate mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer mercury-in-glass thermometer mercury poisoning Mercury program mercury thermometer mercury-vapor lamp