Quicksilver
['kwɪksɪlvə] or ['kwɪk'sɪlvɚ]
Definition
(a.) The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Mercury, hydrargyrum.
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Examples
- Perhaps, however, if it were buried in quicksilver, it might preserve, for a considerable space of time, its vegetable life, its smell, and colour. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Quicksilver Bob he was called as a boy in Lancaster, because he used to buy all that metal he could for experiments. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There was a factory in Lancaster where arms were being made for the Continental troops, and Quicksilver Bob was given the run of the place. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Every particle eludes the grasp by a new fraction; like quicksilver, when we endeavour to seize it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- They obtained potash from wine lees, soda from sea-plants, and from quicksilver the mercuric ox ide which played so interesting a part in the later history of chemistry. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- She cleaved to him, and he could feel his blood changing like quicksilver. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The other day he was pretending to tap a man's brain and get quicksilver out of it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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