mercury

• a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element
• (Roman mythology) messenger of Jupiter and god of commerce
• the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun
• temperature measured by a mercury thermometer
• A Latin god of commerce and gain
• 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
• Sprightly or mercurial quality
• A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe
• To wash with a preparation of mercury
• Residential area (city, town, village) in the United States of America (USA) in Alabama
• Residential area (city, town, village) in the United States of America (USA) in Nevada
• Residential area (city, town, village) in the United States of America (USA) in Texas

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