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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The metal mercury.

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  • With this apparatus, after a variety of other experiments .... on the 1st of August, 1774, I endeavoured to extract air from _mercurius calcinatus per se_; and I presently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily.

    The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir

  • With this apparatus, after a variety of experiments .... on the 1st of August, 1774, I endeavored to extract air from mercurius calcinatus per se; and I presently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily.

    A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences 1904

  • Dissolved in muriatic acid, mercurius corrosivus sublimatus, or hydrargyrus muriatus.

    Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

  • Precipitated from muriatic acid, mercurius precipitatus albus, calx hydrargyri alba.

    Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

  • And he beat them. hey mercurius, so what if is she is a foreign policy ignoramus?

    Larvatus Prodeo 2008

  • And he beat them. hey mercurius, so what if is she is a foreign policy ignoramus?

    Larvatus Prodeo 2008

  • Take of mercurius dulcis half an ounce; of aloes fix drams; of conferve of wormwood enough to make them in to. a ball, which muft be roiled in 'wheat flour;

    Sporting Magazine 1795

  • Si vero mercurius hic dulcis denuo pluries fub - limetur, mutatur denique in Panaceam mercurialemy omni fere ftimulo defti* tutam.

    Joan. Ant. Scopoli ... Fvndamenta Chemiae praelectionibvs pvblicis accomodata Giovanni Antonio Scopoli 1777

  • D.A. dici idud potctt cirea aUquaphsenomenaJn quibus feiHcet nulla obfervatur corporum cxtraneorun« attraQio C.A. tn quibus obfervatur pofitiva repulfiei N, A. & Cm. Quod mercurius in tubo vitreo non aN tollatur, caufa ell» quia roajor kabctur attradio in par* tibus mercurii ad fe inviccm, quan qa» efk vitri act mercurtum.

    Francisci Tessanek ... Elementa physicae Franz Tessanek 1768

  • I had so little suspicion of the air from the mercurius calcinatus, etc., being wholesome, that I had not even thought of applying it to the test of nitrous air; but thinking (as my reader must imagine I frequently must have done) on the candle burning in it after long agitation in water, it occurred to me at last to make the experiment; and, putting one measure of nitrous air to two measures of this air, I found not only that it was diminished, but that it was diminished quite as much as common air, and that the redness of the mixture was likewise equal to a similar mixture of nitrous and common air ....

    A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences 1904

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