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Caducean :: Caducean (a.) Of or belonging to Mercury's caduceus, or wand..

Hydrargochloride :: Hydrargochloride (n.) A compound of the bichloride of mercury with another chloride.

Water Barometer :: Water barometer () A barometer in which the changes of atmospheric pressure are indicated by the motion of a column of water instead of mercury. It requires a column of water about thirty-three feet in height.

Petasus :: Petasus (n.) The winged cap of Mercury; also, a broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat worn by Greeks and Romans..

Hydrargyrate :: Hydrargyrate (a.) Of or pertaining to mercury; containing, or impregnated with, mercury..

Mercurialize :: Mercurialize (v. t.) To treat with mercury; to expose to the vapor of mercury.

Hypostasis :: Hypostasis (n.) Principle; an element; -- used by the alchemists in speaking of salt, sulphur, and mercury, which they considered as the three principles of all material bodies..

Salivate :: Salivate (v. t.) To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury..

Mercurial :: Mercurial (a.) Of or pertaining to Mercury as the god of trade; hence, money-making; crafty..

Crith :: Crith (n.) The unit for estimating the weight of a/riform substances; -- the weight of a liter of hydrogen at 0/ centigrade, and with a tension of 76 centimeters of mercury. It is 0.0896 of a gram, or 1.38274 grains..

Manometer :: Manometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the tension or elastic force of gases, steam, etc., constructed usually on the principle of allowing the gas to exert its elastic force in raising a column of mercury in an open tube, or in compressing a portion of air or other gas in a closed tube with mercury or other liquid intervening, or in bending a metallic or other spring so as to set in motion an index; a pressure gauge. See Pressure, and Illust. of Air pump..

Mercury :: Mercury (n.) Sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness.

Solvent :: Solvent (n.) A substance (usually liquid) suitable for, or employed in, solution, or in dissolving something; as, water is the appropriate solvent of most salts, alcohol of resins, ether of fats, and mercury or acids of metals, etc..

Patio :: Patio (n.) A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation..

Column :: Column (n.) Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the Column Vendome; the spinal column..

Tellurium :: Tellurium (n.) A rare nonmetallic element, analogous to sulphur and selenium, occasionally found native as a substance of a silver-white metallic luster, but usually combined with metals, as with gold and silver in the mineral sylvanite, with mercury in Coloradoite, etc. Symbol Te. Atomic weight 125.2..

Hydrargyrism :: Hydrargyrism (n.) A diseased condition produced by poisoning with hydrargyrum, or mercury; mercurialism..

Daguerreotype :: Daguerreotype (n.) An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury..

Oleate :: Oleate (n.) A salt of oleic acid. Some oleates, as the oleate of mercury, are used in medicine by way of inunction..

Mercurial :: Mercurial (a.) Having the form or image of Mercury; -- applied to ancient guideposts.

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