Mercury: nm (word coming from the name of the planet Mercury, Latin Mercurius, with which the alchemical analogy associated this metal).
The word “mercury” has several meanings:
In chemistry, mercury is an atomic transition element (symb. Hg; n° at. 80; m. at. 200,59), a very shiny silvery-white metal, liquid at ordinary temperature, of the same group as zinc and cadmium (hydrargyre, quicksilver).
Mercury alloys (amalgam).
Use of mercury (tinning ice cream, ama...
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