mercuric

American

[mer-kyoor-ik] / mərˈkjʊər ɪk /

adjective

Chemistry.

of or containing mercury, especially in the bivalent state.

mercuric British

/ mɜːˈkjʊərɪk /

adjective

of or containing mercury in the divalent state; denoting a mercury(II) compound

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mercuric Scientific

/ mər-kyr′ĭk /

Containing mercury, especially mercury with a valence of 2.
Compare mercurous

Etymology

Origin of mercuric

First recorded in 1820–30; mercur(y) + -ic

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mercuric

Joseph Priestley first prepared pure oxygen by heating mercuric oxide, HgO:

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

All the while, quick shoulder rolls and hip swirls are slipped in with mercuric speed.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2014

The film's mercuric feeling is heightened by Ric Waite's supple zooms, pans and tracking shots, and by the whining chords of Ry Cooder's music.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus, when he found that a candle burned more brightly, and mice thrived, in the atmosphere created with his container of heated mercuric oxide, he thought this atmosphere was "dephlogisticated air."

From Time Magazine Archive

Place it face up in a glass tray, and turn the mercuric solution over it, till the image first disappears and again becomes visible.

From Harper's Round Table, August 13, 1895 by Various

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