hydrargyrum

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First, the budding neurosurgeon correctly spelled "hydrargyrum", as chemists call mercury or quicksilver.

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  1. Chemical symbol, Hg. Quicksilver; mercury. See mercury.

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  • First, the budding neurosurgeon correctly spelled "hydrargyrum", as chemists call mercury or quicksilver. —  SiliconIndia.com
  • (The Alchemist made of hydrargyrum alloy, Wed 24 Jun, —  B3ta
  • Washington: India American teenager Kavya Shivashankar finally won it all in the televised US National Spelling Bee competition, nailing esoteric words from "hydrargyrum" to "Laodicean", coolly writing them down with her finger on her palm. —  SiliconIndia.com
  • Dealt the tongue-twister, “hydrargyrum,” which means the element mercury, Kavya solved it by also asking, “Does it come from the Greek ‘hydro,’ meaning water?” —  Kansas City Star: Front Page
 

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  1. New Latin, from Latin hydrargyrus, from Greek ὑδράργυρος, quicksilver (as artificially prepared from cinnabar ore; native quicksilver was called ἂργυρος χυτός ‘fused silver’), from υ%36δωρ (ὑδρ-), water, + ἂργυρος, silver: see argent.
 

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