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quicksilver    音标拼音: [kw'ɪks'ɪlvɚ]
n. 水银,汞
vt. 涂上水银
a. 水银似的,易变的

水银,汞涂上水银水银似的,易变的

quicksilver
adj 1: liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic
behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of
temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful
at one moment, utterly fragile the next" [synonym: {erratic},
{fickle}, {mercurial}, {quicksilver(a)}]
n 1: a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic
element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary
temperatures [synonym: {mercury}, {quicksilver}, {hydrargyrum},
{Hg}, {atomic number 80}]

Quicksilver \Quick"sil`ver\, n. [Quick living silver; -- so
called from its fluidity; cf. G. quecksilber, L. argentum
vivum. See {Quick}, a.] (Chem.)
The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to
liquid silver.
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{Quicksilver horizon}, a mercurial artificial horizon. See
under {Horizon}.

{Quicksilver water}, a solution of mercury nitrate used in
artificial silvering; quick water.
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Mercury \Mer"cu*ry\, n. [L. Mercurius; akin to merx wares.]
1. (Rom. Myth.) A Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated
by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger
of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and
god of eloquence.
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2. (Chem.) A metallic element mostly obtained by reduction
from cinnabar, one of its ores. It is a heavy, opaque,
glistening liquid (commonly called {quicksilver}), and is
used in barometers, thermometers, etc. Specific gravity
13.6. Symbol Hg (Hydrargyrum). Atomic weight 199.8.
Mercury has a molecule which consists of only one atom. It
was named by the alchemists after the god Mercury, and
designated by his symbol, [mercury].
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Note: Mercury forms alloys, called amalgams, with many
metals, and is thus used in applying tin foil to the
backs of mirrors, and in extracting gold and silver
from their ores. It is poisonous, and is used in
medicine in the free state as in blue pill, and in its
compounds as calomel, corrosive sublimate, etc. It is
the only metal which is liquid at ordinary
temperatures, and it solidifies at about -39[deg]
Centigrade to a soft, malleable, ductile metal.
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3. (Astron.) One of the planets of the solar system, being
the one nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is
about 36,000,000 miles. Its period is 88 days, and its
diameter 3,000 miles.
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4. A carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger; hence, also,
a newspaper. --Sir J. Stephen. "The monthly Mercuries."
--Macaulay.
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5. Sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability;
fickleness. [Obs.]
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He was so full of mercury that he could not fix long
in any friendship, or to any design. --Bp. Burnet.
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6. (Bot.) A plant ({Mercurialis annua}), of the Spurge
family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for
spinach, in Europe.
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Note: The name is also applied, in the United States, to
certain climbing plants, some of which are poisonous to
the skin, esp. to the {Rhus Toxicodendron}, or poison
ivy.
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{Dog's mercury} (Bot.), {Mercurialis perennis}, a perennial
plant differing from {Mercurialis annua} by having the
leaves sessile.

{English mercury} (Bot.), a kind of goosefoot formerly used
as a pot herb; -- called {Good King Henry}.

{Horn mercury} (Min.), a mineral chloride of mercury, having
a semitranslucent, hornlike appearance.
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126 Moby Thesaurus words for "quicksilver":
April showers, Proteus, active, activist, activistic, alive,
animated, antelope, arrow, aureate, blue darter, blue streak,
bouncing, bouncy, brass, brassy, brazen, breezy, brisk, bronze,
bronzy, bubbly, cannonball, chameleon, changeable, chipper,
cloud shapes, copper, coppery, coquettish, courser, cupreous,
cuprous, dart, eagle, ebullient, effervescent, electricity,
energetic, express train, faddish, ferrous, ferruginous, fickle,
flash, flighty, flirtatious, frisky, full of go, full of life,
full of pep, gazelle, gilt, gold, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden,
greased lightning, greyhound, hare, inconstant, iron, ironlike,
jet plane, kaleidoscope, lead, leaden, light, lightning, live,
lively, mercurial, mercurous, mercury, militant, moon, nickel,
nickelic, nickeline, peppy, perky, pert, pewter, pewtery, rocket,
rolling stone, scared rabbit, shifting sands, shot, silver,
silver-plated, silvery, skittish, smacking, snappy, spanking,
spirited, sprightly, spry, steel, steely, streak,
streak of lightning, striped snake, swallow, the weather, thought,
thunderbolt, tin, tinny, torrent, toying, undependable,
unpredictable, unreliable, vacillating, versatile, vivacious,
volatile, water, weather vane, weathercock, wheel of fortune,
whirligig, wind, zingy



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