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Quicksilver synonyms

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A heavy, silvery-white metallic chemical element, liquid at ordinary temperatures, which sometimes occurs in a free state but usually in combination with sulfur; quicksilver: it is used in thermometers, air pumps, electrical products, etc. and in dental fillings: symbol, Hg; at. no. 80
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  1. A heavy, silvery-white metallic chemical element, liquid at ordinary temperatures, which sometimes occurs in a free state but usually in combination with sulfur; quicksilver: it is used in thermometers, air pumps, electrical products, etc. and in dental fillings: symbol, Hg; at. no. 80
  2. Temperature:
  3. The mercury column in a thermometer or barometer
ore
A natural substance from which a nonmetallic material, such as sulfur, can be extracted
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  1. A natural substance from which a nonmetallic material, such as sulfur, can be extracted
  2. Any natural combination of minerals, esp. one from which a metal or metals can be profitably extracted
  3. A mineral or an aggregate of minerals from which a valuable constituent, especially a metal, can be profitably mined or extracted.
Find another word for quicksilver. In this page you can discover 13 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for quicksilver, like: mercury, ore, liquid mercury, metal, mercury, mercury, erratic, fickle, mercurial, mercury and hydrargyrum.

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  • Small quantities of quicksilver, sulphur and iron are obtained.

  • It includes diamonds, the majority of which, however, are of a somewhat yellow colour, gold, quicksilver, cinnabar, copper, iron, tin, antimony, mineral oils, sulphur, rock-salt, marble and coal.

  • Antimony, quicksilver, stone, marble, slate and potter's clay are also worked, and there are brine springs in the Hellweg and mineral springs at Lippspringe, Oynhausen, &c.

  • In the view of some alchemists, the ultimate principles of matter were Aristotle's four elements; the proximate constituents were a " sulphur " and a " mercury," the father and mother of the metals; gold was supposed to have attained to the perfection of its nature by passing in succession through the forms of lead, brass and silver; gold and silver were held to contain very pure red sulphur and white quicksilver, whereas in the other metals these materials were coarser and of a different colour.

  • The mines yield iron, coal, quicksilver and salt.

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