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    mercury


    1. Ackers carefully inserted the device into the crack on the door, and then he squeezed what looked like the blue mercury down the tube, out of the device and into the door


    2. The adrenalin rush of the previous evening and the near quarter bottle of Scotch that she had drunk before bed had not mixed well and, when she opened the door to the reporter from the Sun & Mercury, Miss Jones was suffering from the unpalatable effects of her first hangover since her debutante years


    3. It is sometimes found in pieces of some bulk ; and, even when mixed, in small and almost insensible particles, with sand, earth, and other extraneous bodies, it can be separated from them by a very short and simple operation, which can be carried on in any private house by any body who is possessed of a small quantity of mercury


    4. His copper coloured suit appeared to ripple as if it had the fluidity of mercury


    5. contact with the whaleship, Mercury, chasing whales in a stiff gale off Cape Bering


    6. The Mercury immediately made contact with the whaleships Florida, Corinthian, and Peru, and they all steered westward, hoping to keep out of sight


    7. Morgan, Helen Snow and the bark, Mercury


    8. High levels of mercury were found in the fish


    9. The Patriarch’s face began to twist and reshape itself as if it was made of water or mercury; all his facial characteristics were turning into a pool engulfed in bright light, as if fire was about to scorch it


    10. Not only that, but only a few feet in front of him the floor started to ripple with intensity, turning into a molten pool of what looked like quicksilver or mercury

    11. He described the fixed stars (points of light, without borders) and “wandering stars” (the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn)


    12. Five years after the incident, Marsh's lawyers reported that both Marsh and his father suffered from Mercury poisoning, apparently due to a faulty filter system at the crematorium


    13. (Mercury is one of the side products of the cremation process)


    14. Relatives of the deceased must pay for new filters which need to ensure that mercury fumes are not released into the atmosphere


    15. “No Mercury emissions in the atmosphere”


    16. After the mercury filters have been installed and they stop throwing our bones in a ditch, this argument is null an void


    17. Gabriel saw the darkness illuminated by the lights of mercury from


    18. Some looked like mercury, another one like sea water, and a few of the rest moved like they were alive


    19. But instead of water, it had some silver substance that reminded me of mercury: thick, heavy, and dense


    20. The Obama administration has proposed requiring power plants using coal or fuel oil to reduce emissions of mercury and certain other hazardous pollutants by 91%

    21. terrestrial planet to the Sun, Mercury


    22. You could just calculate that Mercury


    23. Meanwhile, OSHA inspectors from Boston found that the level of mercury vapors in the plant’s workspaces was thirty times the permissible limits


    24. Precisely at eight the stage was flooded with light from the mercury vapor lights


    25. The inner planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars - are about the


    26. Mercury is the closest planet to


    27. Because Mercury is so close to the Sun, it is hard to see from Earth


    28. side of Mercury always faced the Sun


    29. that Mercury completes three rotations for every two orbits around the


    30. If you wanted to stay up for a Mercury day, you'd have to stay up

    31. The Caloris Basin, one of the largest features on Mercury, is about


    32. next half-billion years, Mercury actually shrank in radius from 2 to 4


    33. the size of a baseball, Mercury would be the size of a golf ball


    34. from Mercury, the Sun would look almost three times as large as it


    35. Mercury is the second densest body in the solar


    36. astronomers using radar observations showed that Mercury may have


    37. of the planet Mercury, which is closest to the Sun


    38. ” He looked Joshua in the eyes with a mercury stare that was


    39. Mercury, which we call Nebu, played with Venus for a while,


    40. As the fighters came over the hill, their eyes were set on the beautiful hidden temple, which was made of pure silver and mercury

    41. One of the chemists/biologists’ worst nightmares: Exposure to a few drops of dimethyl mercury and the individual only has a few weeks to live with seizures, hearing and vision loss, vomiting, constipation, and other fun things


    42. Small amounts of mercury are okay though, because that means a person can have some really cool looking mutant retarded kids to sell to a sideshow or, if the person doesn’t need the money, he or she can just lock the kids in the cellar and bring them out at parties


    43. According to the San Jose Mercury News, the police have been unable to track any pattern in the slayings or explain the dramatic increase


    44. I CONJURE and call upon you, ye strong and holy angels, good and powerful, in a strong name of fear and praise, Ja, Adonay, Elohim, Saday, Saday, Saday; Eie, Eie, Eie; Asamie, Asamie; and in the name of Adonay, the God of Israel, who hath made the two great lights, and distinguished day from night for the benefit of his creatures; and by the names of all the discerning angels, governing openly in the second house before the great angel, Tetra, strong and powerful; and by the name of his star which is Mercury; and by the name of his seal, which is that of a powerful and honoured God; and I call upon thee, Raphael, and by the names above mentioned, thou great angel who presidest over the fourth day: and by the holy name which is written in the front of Aaron, created the most high priest, and by the names of all the angels who are constant in the grace of Christ, and by the name and place of Ammaluim, that you assist me in my labours, &c


    45. Tuna is one of the primary fish in the oceans that accumulates mercury


    46. and there’s plenty of mercury in the seas and oceans nowadays


    47. Mercury will accumulate in fat cells, and when you’re on a diet, the fat cells that


    48. Mercury transits this same eclipse point (the Solar Eclipse of April 29) on the 5th and 6th


    49. Mercury transits this same eclipse point (the Lunar Eclipse of October 8) from the 8th to the 10th


    50. Mercury is your financial planet












































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    Synonyms for "mercury"

    mercury atomic number 80 hg hydrargyrum quicksilver

    "mercury" definitions

    a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures


    (Roman mythology) messenger of Jupiter and god of commerce; counterpart of Greek Hermes


    the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun


    temperature measured by a mercury thermometer