The night here was cold, the mercury at daylight being down to 24 degrees, and there was ice on the water or tea left in the pannikins or billies overnight.
The mercury went down to 28 degrees by daylight the next morning, but neither ice nor frost appeared.
The afternoons are excessively relaxing, for although the mercury falls a little after three o'clock, still the morning's heat appears to remain until the sun has actually set.
The night was totally different from the former, the mercury not falling below 66 degrees.
You knew that to be the case; the point is its equality with the mercury I sold in Portici.
Pray, tell me whether the mercuryaugmented by you to-day is again susceptible of a similar increase.
Yet I was wrong to accept the character of Mercury to the two young lovers.
I have made the amalgam," he said, "but the mercury is not perfect.
My plans were laid, and I asked him to let me have one of the flagons of mercury at the current price, and took it to my room.
The augmentation ofmercury ought to be enough for you.
After dinner we repaired to my room, and he found his mercury divided in two vessels.
My merry laugh kept company with his astonishment, and calling one of the servants of the inn I sent him to the druggist to sell the mercury that was left.
As I was talking with my new acquaintance, I recollected an amalgam of mercury with lead and bismuth, by which the mercury increases one-fourth in weight.
When the moon hath trine to Mercury in the house of Saturn.
Mercury hath sent us precious handsel this morning, truly," said he, when his diversion was concluded.
This leaden-heeled Mercury should have a largess," said the chief, "but in this den we have not wherewithal to give him.
The only ruins at all suggestive of the state and luxury which were the boast of patrician Rome when Augustus reigned and Horace wrote, are the foundations and part of the walls of the Temples of Mercury and Diana.
This was the strangest sight of all;—in this professedly Christian land, temples and altars with the traces of slain and bloodless sacrifices that had smoked upon them, to Mercury and Jupiter and Venus.
A small bottle of mercuryis sent with each governor; also two small lead weights, which go on top of float B.
The temperature can be ascertained by plunging a thermometer reading up to 600 degrees Fahrenheit into the molten metal in front of the well and readings taken when the mercury remains constant.
When the gas pressure becomes too heavy it raises the float B, which sets in mercury at point J and A, and closes the valve C, points 1 and 2.
Mercury will never appear except in the morning or evening twilight, when none but the very brightest stars are visible, since it never departs far from the sun.
The densities of Mercury and Venus are slightly less than that of the earth and the densities of Mars and the moon about equal to that of the earth's crust.
The existence of a planet within the orbit of Mercury is now, after long continued and diligent search, believed to be very doubtful.
The existence of life on Mercury is made impossible by the absence of an atmosphere.
We hear occasionally of the possibility of the existence of intra-Mercurial and trans-Neptunian planets and it is possible that some day an additional planet may be discovered within the orbit of Mercury or beyond the orbit of Neptune.
There is the possibility that forms of life may exist on these satellites of Jupiter, though they are more likely barren, lifeless worlds, such asMercury and the moon.
The determinations of the densities of bodies, as given by Alhazen, approach very closely to our own; in the case of mercury they are even more exact than some of those of the last century.
Thus, either on theoretical principles or on the ground of actual experience, men of learning and judgment have used mercury in such cases as I detailed above, with a certain confidence.
When mercurials have been taken sulphide of mercury may give a green color to the discharges.
If ever mercury is expected to do any good in cases of suffocation by membrane, it must be made to act promptly.
Lately, the cyanide of mercuryhas been recommended very strongly.
This child had been taking bichloride of mercury in one-fiftieth grain doses, prescribed by a homoeopathic physician, without appreciable benefit.
Within the past few years the internal administration of bichloride of mercury has been resorted to more frequently and with greater success than ever before.
These are the cases in which mercurydeserves to have friends, apologists, and even eulogists.
In the treatment of one of the cases reported above it will be recollected that the mild chloride of mercury mite was given with the podophyllin, with a good result.
Within three weeks, every man, woman and child in the system will be clamoring for mercury metal.
But the eleven thousand tons of discharged mercury metal had been completely charged in just a bit better than eleven minutes.
On Mercury he goes in for potassium, and sells the power he collects in cooling his dome, of course.
He ordered that all IP stations save these two be deserted, and all mercury fuel reserves be moved to Deenmor and Mars Center.
Five hundred tons of their mercuryhad been exhausted in that brief five minutes.
We built that mercury up to a new level, and that transitional stage was the red, crystalline metal.
Thank our lucky stars that Faragaut here, and I, bought up all the mercuryin the system, and had it brought to Earth.
The great copper conductors, charged with the same atostor force that was used in the mercury fuel, were perfect conductors, they had not heated.
Deenmor station vanished in a sudden, colossal tongue of blue-green light as the ton of atomically distorted mercury was exploded by a projector beam turned on the tank.
The mercury metal in the receiver, behind its layers of screening was beginning to glow, with a dull reddish light, and little solidifications were appearing in it!
I'm willing to bet that thing simply shoved the whole electron system of the mercury out a notch--that it simply hasn't any K-ring of electrons now.
There remained only a tiny, dancing globule of silvery mercury skittering around on the sharp, needle-like crystals of the dull red metal that had resulted.
Also, the "S Doradus" had brought in several hundred tons of charged mercury on each trip, though this was no great quantity individually, it had mounted up in the ten trips she had made.
In the myths of the wind, Mercury (or Hermes) was one of the principal personifications.
Armed with a handful of poppies, Mercury approached Argus, and offered to while away the time by telling him tales.
The three hours passed all too quickly in delicious intercourse; and when Mercury reappeared to lead him back to Hades, the loving wife, unable to endure a second parting, died of grief.
Mercury pretended innocence, until Apollo, exasperated, dragged him off to Olympus, where he was convicted of the theft, and condemned to restore the stolen property.
Amused at the sight of this grotesque little divinity, Mercury carried him off to Olympus, where all the gods turned him into ridicule.
As Ulysses would not be dissuaded from his purpose, Mercury gave him some moly, an herb warranted to preserve him from Circe's magic spells, and sundry important directions, which were all duly listened to and observed.
She nudged Epimetheus, and in a whisper begged him to ask Mercurywhat brought him thither.
A short time after the lamp is lit, the water boils and forces the mercury along the tube; then the degrees are read off on the instrument.
The rays of the sun were very powerful, and raised the mercury nearly to 150°.
In this gauge a rise of the mercury one inch in the one leg involves a difference of the level between the two legs of two inches, and an inch of rise is, therefore, equivalent to two inches of mercury, or a pound of pressure.
You have stated that the steam and vacuum gauges are generally glass tubes, up which mercury is forced by the steam or sucked by the vacuum?
Another gauge, called the steam gauge, is applied to the boiler, which indicates the pressure of the steam by the height to which the steam forces mercury up a tube.
Vacuum gauges are very often of this construction, but steam gauges more frequently consist of a small iron tube, bent like the letter U, and into which mercury is poured.
Sturgeon in 1830, that the evil was greatly reduced if the surface of the zinc plates was amalgamated, by being rubbed with mercury under dilute sulphuric acid.
This was done by folding a long strip of very stiff paper so as to make an angular trough into which the mercury was poured.
But it was not until the discovery of the liquefaction of carbonic acid, nitrous oxide, and other gases by Faraday, about 1823, that the freezing of mercury became a common lecture-room experiment.
In a few seconds the mercury was frozen quite solid so that it could be lifted out by means of two pairs of wooden forceps and bent and knotted at will.
To the ancient chemists mercury must have been one of the most interesting of objects.
But these processes do not enable us to fix mercury in the alchemical sense; the accomplishment of that still remains an unsolved problem, and it is more than likely that it will remain so.
In this way it was easy to make a hammer-head of frozen mercury and drive a nail with it.
But the most striking part of the experiment was the melting of this bar of mercury by means of a piece of ice.
The melted mercury was allowed to fall into a tall ale-glass of water, the temperature of which had been reduced as nearly as possible to the freezing point.
Mercury was, of course, appropriated to the planet of that name.
The tin was melted in the fire and the mercury heated.
I have often wondered what the old alchemists would have said if they had seen fluid mercury immersed in a clear liquid and brought out in the form of a lump of solid, bright metal.
The buds are seldom safe, however, at any time when the mercury sinks ten or fifteen degrees below zero.
A country home makes even the weather interesting; and the rise and fall of the mercury is watched with scarcely less solicitude than the mutations of the market.
The man of rules says the first of July is the time to set out winter cabbage; and out the plants go, though the sky be brazen, and the mercury in the nineties.
The whole mass being now poured out into troughs, the scoria was washed off from the amalgam, which was gathered and put into a stout leathern bag with a cloth bottom, and the unabsorbed mercury drained out.
Mercury raised to a high temperature becomes red precipitate; and red precipitate exposed to a still greater heat becomes mercury again.
Snow six to eight feet on a level and the mercury down as low as 62 with an ornery fierce wind.
Slept in snow-drift that night in wet clothes, mercury 40 below.
In ten minutes the mercury goes up thirty-five degrees.
It is generally graduated into centesimal parts, and perforated by two opposed wires for the purpose of passing an electric spark through the gases which are introduced into it, and which are confined within it over mercury and water.
As men grow better they become like that glycerine barometer recently introduced, on which a fall or a rise that would have been invisible with mercury to record it takes up inches, and is glaringly conspicuous.
Get Christ into your heart, and your mercury will always stand at one height.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mercury" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
