Counterpart of Greek Hermes

Usage examples of mercury.

The braziers began giving off a thick, resinous, overly sweet smoke with something astringent to it but I had no way of knowing if it was, in fact, the perfume the grimoire had specified for operations ruled by the planet Mercury: a mixture of mastic, frankincense, cinquefoil, achates, and the dried and powdered brains of a fox.

It deserves notice that he experimented with the most boasted substances,-- cinchona, aconite, mercury, bryonia, belladonna.

This produces a greater suction in the right-hand side of the mercury tube, which draws the mercury up on that side and down on the other, until the proper electrical contact is broken and the ailerons are returned to neutral position.

The various preparations of mercury have a profound, alterative effect upon the system.

This famous courtezan, whose beauty was justly celebrated, feeling herself eaten away by an internal disease, promised to give a hundred louis to a doctor named Lucchesi, who by dint of mercury undertook to cure her, but Ancilla specified on the agreement that she was not to pay the aforesaid sum till Lucchesi had offered with her an amorous sacrifice.

In the kitchen were hung our two mercury barometers, four aneroids, barograph, thermograph, and one thermometer.

Beneath it the city dropped away in walls, roofs, archaistic chimneys and lamplit streets, goblin lights of human-piloted vehicles, to the harbor, the sweep of Venture Bay, ships bound to and from the Sunward Islands and remoter regions of the Boreal Ocean, which glimmered like mercury in the afterglow of Charlemagne.

The salts of silver, mercury, gold, copper, nickel, and platinum, chromic and arsenious acids, cause great inflection with extreme quickness, and are deadly poisons.

In addition to the nitric acid and glycerin Yousef mixed into nitro, he imported sodium azide, the primary explosive used to detonate airbags, along with mercury fulminate, another explosive.

Sulphur, Mercury, Salt, volatilized and fixed, compose the Azoth, 773-l.

She had already began to take his remedies, which were partly composed of mercury.

He began his treatment by putting me on a severe regimen, ordering baths, and applying mercury locally.

At this moment Mercury unfortunately approached his caduceus a little too close to the sinister object on the floor.

Mercury had laid aside his caduceus, and Neptune had slipped his trident under the table.

The next was something very like the caduceus, the serpent-twined staff of Mercury which is the symbol of the medical profession.