red mercury
noun
a supposedly radioactive substance that could be used in a bomb made from nuclear waste, widely believed to be part of a confidence trick in which gangsters sold useless material to terrorists in the early 1990s
Words nearby red mercury
red mass, red matipo, red meat, red mercuric oxide, red mercuric sulfide, red mercury, red mist, red mombin, red mulberry, red mullet, red muscle
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