Mercury is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MERCURY in dictionary:

VERB:
• To wash with a preparation of mercury.
NOUN:
• a metallic element
• the Roman god of eloquence, skill, trading, and thieving, herald and messenger of the gods, who was identified with Hermes.
• used in names of newspapers and journals
• a small planet that is the closest to the sun in the solar system, sometimes visible to the naked eye just after sunset.
• silvery liquid metal
• A Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence.
• A metallic element mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar, one of its ores. It is a heavy, opaque, glistening liquid (commonly called quicksilver), and is used in barometers, thermometers, ect. Specific gravity 13.6. Symbol Hg (Hydrargyrum). Atomic weight 199.8. Mercury has a molecule which consists of only one atom. It was named by the alchemists after the god Mercury, and designated by his symbol, /.
• One of the planets of the solar system, being the one nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is about 36,000,000 miles. Its period is 88 days, and its diameter 3,000 miles.
• A carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger; hence, also, a newspaper.
• Sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness.
• A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe.
• a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
• (Roman mythology) messenger of Jupiter and god of commerce; counterpart of Greek Hermes
• the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun
• temperature measured by a mercury thermometer

Words related to MERCURY

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Words that contain MERCURY

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How to use MERCURY in a sentence

• In many places, still on the pedestal, you would see a headless Venus, or a flying Mercury chopped off at the waist.
• In the shade the mercury stood at 80 degrees above 0, which is the second time it has reached that height during this season.
• Pour mercury into a U-shaped tube until the level of the mercury in the closed end of the tube is the same as the level in the open end.
• The only one which I shall now notice is the process by which it is obtained from bicyanide of mercury.
• Is the mercury free from scum and dirt? If not, filter.
• She was the only unmarried white woman within a hundred miles, and the mercury ranged from zero to -20 degrees all winter.
• In this way several views of Mercury may be obtained during the year.
• Even simpler methods carefully applied may serve to give a view of Mercury.
• The mercury spots are to be removed by burning the plate.
• At the ends of the rods were the names of planets, such as Jupiter and Mercury.
• Mercury then appeared and related some of his adventures in Thessaly with Apollo.
• Again the mercury drops twenty and more below zero, and the very trees swoon.
• The rapid depression of the mercury was quite perceptible to the eye.
• The tube C is filled to a certain height with mercury and then petroleum.
• The cold grew more intense, and on the tenth of the month the mercury stood at forty degrees below zero.
• In the shade the mercury stood at eighty degrees, which is the second time it has reached that height during this season.
• For several days the mercury never rose out of the bulb, and I could only estimate the temperature by the rapidity with which my supper froze after being taken from the fire.
• Soon I was shooting along the phantom streets, like Mercury on a message through Hades.
• When the apparatus is at rest the piston F descends into the mercury to such a distance as will balance the weight of the rods, hook, and piston itself.
• Yet is Mercury lord of the tenth, and free from affliction.
• They are decomposed at a high temperature into metallic mercury and oxygen.
• The mercury flies away as vapor and the gold remains.
• If you had a thermometer which would register that number of degrees, and were to plunge it into the slush, the sensitive mercury would tell the story.

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