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mercury switch

noun

, Electricity.
  1. an especially quiet switch that opens and closes an electric circuit by shifting a vial containing a pool of mercury so as to cover or uncover the contacts.

mercury switch

noun

  1. electrical engineering a switch in which a circuit is completed between two terminals by liquid mercury when the switch is tilted

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