mercury chloride

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noun

See mercurous chloride, mercuric chloride

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mercurous, mercurous chloride, mercury, mercury arc, mercury barometer, mercury chloride, mercury fulminate, mercury mass, mercury poisoning, Mercury program, mercury switch

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According to Wynd, “Freddie Mercury once said he wanted to lead a Victorian life surrounded by exquisite clutter.”
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He was demoted at the Mercury News, and left the paper in 1997.
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In an interview with the San Jose Mercury News, Shi described one unwelcome encounter with Zhang.
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That means most of these planets orbit closer than Mercury does to the Sun.
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Caroline Sweeney, the police reporter for the Pottstown Mercury, updates the page at least once a week.
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These have canted bay windows below them, and their pediments are surmounted by figures representing Mercury and Athæne.
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But the day he planned to start was very cold—the mercury stood twenty-seven below zero.
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Bang went the fragile bulb, as it splintered into a thousand atoms, and the mercury shot in sparkling globules over the table.
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Chloride of Lime … bad smell … bad egg … white of egg … fowl … grain … flour … flour and water … milk fluid … milk.
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If it be true that Venus does not turn upon its axis, such is likely to be the case also with the planet Mercury.
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