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mercurification

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In chem., the process or operation of obtaining the mercury from metallic minerals in its fluid form.—
  • noun The act or art of mixing with quicksilver.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Metal.) The process or operation of obtaining the mercury, in its fluid form, from mercuric minerals.
  • noun (Chem.), rare The act or process of compounding, or the state of being compounded, with mercury.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The process or operation of obtaining the mercury, in its fluid form, from mercuric minerals.
  • noun chemistry The act or process of compounding, or the state of being compounded, with mercury.

Etymologies

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Compare French mercurification. See mercurify.

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