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Brewer's: Mercurial Finger
(The). The little finger. The thumb, in chiromancy, we give to Venus, The forefinger to Jove, the midst to Saturn, The ring to Sol, the least to Mercury. BenJonson: The Alchemist, i. 1.…Brewer's: Mercury Fig
(In Latin Ficus and Mercurium). The first fig gathered off a fig-tree was by the Romans devoted to Mercury. The proverbial saying was applied generally to all first fruits or first works,…Freddie Mercury Biography
Freddie Mercury (Farookh Bulsara)musician, bandleader, singerBorn: 9/5/1946Birthplace: Zanzibar, Zanzibar Lead singer and driving force behind the band Queen, Mercury died in 1991 of AIDS. He…quicksilver
(Encyclopedia) quicksilver: see mercury.Hg
(Encyclopedia) Hg, symbol for the element mercury.Mercury, in astronomy
(Encyclopedia) Mercury, in astronomy, nearest planet to the sun, at a mean distance of 36 million mi (58 million km); its period of revolution is 88 days. Mercury passes through phases similar to…cinnabar
(Encyclopedia) cinnabarcinnabarsĭnˈəbär [key], mineral, the sulfide of mercury, HgS. Deep red in color, it is used as a pigment (see vermilion), but principally it is a source of the metal mercury.…amalgam
(Encyclopedia) amalgamamalgaməmălˈgəm [key], alloy containing mercury. The alloy may be liquid or solid, depending on the proportion of mercury, although all naturally occurring amalgams, i.e., those…fulminate
(Encyclopedia) fulminatefulminatefŭlˈmĭnāt [key], any salt of fulminic acid, HONC, a highly unstable compound known only in solution. The term is most commonly applied to the explosive mercury (II)…Trending
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