Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- The symbol for the element mercury.
- abbr. Bible Haggai
Wiktionary
- n. chemistry Symbol for mercury.
Etymologies
- From Latin hydrargyrus, from Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (hydor, "water") + άργυρος (argyros, "silver"). (Wiktionary)
- From New Latin hydrargyrum, mercury, from Latin hydrargyrus, from Greek hudrarguros : hudr-, hudro-, hydro- + arguros, silver; see litharge. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Mercury | Hg | 200.00 | 13.596 | - 39. 5° | Hg_ {2} O | HgO”
“Regardless, the total amount of atmospheric Hg is meaningless to an individual in the face of an acute exposure”
Would You Buy This Funny-Looking Bulb? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“Python is moving to a distributed version control system (DVCS), but unlike many projects which have moved to Git, Guido van Rossum has selected Mercurial, also known as Hg (the chemical symbol for mercury), as the DVCS for Python”
“I believe Hg under MozBuild is still the default win build of Hg, meaning it uses the windows shell not MSYS shell to execute this stuff.”
“Because she doesn't seem to understand that there are, in fact, actors out there besides Jeremy "Hg" Piven.”
“One hundred cubic centimeters of the mixture measured at 25°C and 750 mm Hg yields 84.5 cm3 of dry oxygen measured at the same temperature and pressure after passage over CuO and the drying agent in the tube.”
“Hg Original by admin on Nov. 01, 2009, under Uncategorized”
“If Congress wants to define the amount of Hg that can be discharged into rivers, then go ahead an do so.”
“An arterial blood gas on 100 percentoxygen revealed a pH 7.39, pO2 36.8 mm Hg, pCO2 36.8 mm Hg, HCO3 20.6 meq/L.”
“Mortensen ME, Valenzuela PM. 2,3-dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) chelation in mercury (Hg) vapor poisoning.”
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