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Meaning of mercury

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  mercury
      n 1: a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic
           element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary
           temperatures [syn: {mercury}, {quicksilver}, {hydrargyrum},
           {Hg}, {atomic number 80}]
      2: (Roman mythology) messenger of Jupiter and god of commerce;
         counterpart of Greek Hermes
      3: the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun
      4: temperature measured by a mercury thermometer; "the mercury
         was falling rapidly"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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