Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet QUICKSILVER

Definition av QUICKSILVER

1. kvicksilver

Exempel på hur man kan använda QUICKSILVER i en mening

• Ulloa also served as governor of Huancavelica in the Viceroyalty of Peru from 1758 to 1764, along with serving as superintendent of the quicksilver mines in the region.
• The price paid was high, but one of the Rothschild family firms had previously purchased the quicksilver mine in Idrija (now in Slovenia) from Austria; thus the firm had a monopoly on quicksilver, until the discovery of New Almaden in California.
• The tradition remains today with the name of the element mercury, where chemists decided the planetary name was preferable to common names like "quicksilver", and in a few archaic terms such as lunar caustic (silver nitrate) and saturnism (lead poisoning).

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