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  2. Mercury (element) - Wikipedia

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    Like the English name quicksilver (' living-silver '), this name was due to mercury's liquid and shiny properties. [28] The modern English name mercury comes from the planet Mercury. In medieval alchemy, the seven known metals—quicksilver, gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin—were associated with the seven planets.

  3. Surface layering - Wikipedia

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    Surface layering was predicted theoretically by Stuart Rice at the University of Chicago in 1983 [2] and has been experimentally discovered by Peter Pershan (Harvard) and his group, working in collaboration with Ben Ocko (Brookhaven) and Moshe Deutsch (Bar-Ilan) in 1995 in elemental liquid mercury [3] and liquid gallium [4] using x-ray ...

  4. List of alchemical substances - Wikipedia

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    Corrosive sublimate – mercuric chloride, formed by subliming mercury, calcined green vitriol, common salt, and nitre. Gum Arabic – gum from the acacia tree. Liver of sulfur – formed by fusing [clarification needed] potash and sulfur. Lunar caustic/ lapis infernalis – silver nitrate, formed by dissolving silver in aqua fortis and ...

  5. Acute erythroid leukemia - Wikipedia

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    Acute erythrocyte leukemia (AEL) is an extremely rare form of acute myeloid leukemia (less than 1% of AML cases [1]) which is characterized by neoplastic proliferation of erythroid cells with features of maturation arrest (increased erythroblasts) and high prevalence of biallelic TP53 alterations.

  6. Dimethylmercury - Wikipedia

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    It is also used to calibrate NMR instruments for detection of mercury (δ 0 ppm for 199 Hg NMR), although diethylmercury and less toxic mercury salts are now preferred. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Around 1960, Phil Pomerantz, a man working at the Bureau of Naval Weapons , suggested that dimethylmercury be used as a fuel mix with red fuming nitric acid ...

  7. Red mercury - Wikipedia

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    Red mercury was offered for sale throughout Europe and the Middle East by Russian businessmen, who found many buyers who would pay almost anything for the substance, even though they had no idea what it was. A study for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published in 1997 has perhaps the most factual summary of red mercury:

  8. Mercury relay - Wikipedia

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    Mercury relays consist of a vertical (usually glass) tube containing liquid mercury. They have isolated contacts at the bottom of the tube and partway up, usually in a side arm of the glass. The relay works by displacement. A pool of mercury fills the lower portion of the tube, but is insufficient to bridge the contacts.

  9. Clementine (nuclear reactor) - Wikipedia

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    It was an experimental-scale reactor. The maximum output was 25 kW and was fueled by plutonium and cooled by liquid mercury. Clementine was located at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Clementine was designed and built in 1945–1946 and first achieved criticality in 1946 [1] [2] and full power in March 1949. [3]