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Mercury vs Bismuth - What's the difference?

mercury | bismuth |

As nouns the difference between mercury and bismuth

is that mercury is (dated) a carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger while bismuth is a chemical element (symbol bi) with an atomic number of 83.

As a proper noun mercury

is (roman god) the roman god associated with speed, sometimes used as a messenger he wore winged sandals mercury corresponded to the greek god hermes.

mercury

English

Noun

(-)
  • A metal.
  • # A silvery-colored, toxic, metallic chemical element, liquid at room temperature, with atomic number 80 and symbol Hg.
  • # (science, historical) One of the elemental principles formerly thought to be present in all metals.
  • # The mercury as used in a barometer or thermometer; ambient temperature.
  • The mercury there has averaged 37.6C, 2.3C above the February norm.
  • # (obsolete) Liveliness, volatility.
  • #* Bishop Burnet
  • He was so full of mercury that he could not fix long in any friendship, or to any design.
  • A plant.
  • # An annual plant, Mercurialis annua , formerly grown for its medicinal properties; French mercury.
  • #* 1653 , (Nicholas Culpeper), The English Physician Enlarged , Folio Society 2007, p. 188:
  • Towards the tops of the stalks and branches come forth at every joint in the male Mercury two small round green heads, standing together upon a short footstalk, which growing ripe are the seeds, not having any flower.
  • # A similar edible plant, Chenopodium bonus-henricus , otherwise known as English mercury or allgood.
  • # (US, regional) The poison oak or poison ivy.

    • Synonyms

    * azoth (in alchemy ) * hydrargyrum (in medical and sometimes chemical use ) * quicksilver (not in technical use )

    Derived terms

    * argental mercury * cadmium mercury cell * dichloromercury * dimercury * dimethylmercury * eka-mercury * ethylmercury * fulminate of mercury * mecuricals * mercurate * mercurial * mercuriate * mercuric * mercurify * mercurio-syphilis * mercurochrome * mercurous * mercury arc, mercury arc rectifier, mercury arc valve * mercury bichloride, mercury dichloride * mercury cadmium telluride * mercury dichloride * mercury fulminate * mercury gilding * mercury goosefoot * mercury lamp * mercury perchloride * mercury poisoning * mercury pool * mercury protochloride * mercury rust * mercury selenide * mercury sulfide, mercury sulphide * mercury switch * mercury thermometer * mercury vapor lamp, mercury vapour lamp * mercury vapor pump, mercury vapour pump * mercury vapor rectifier, mercury vapour rectifier * methylmercury * red mercury

    Related terms

    * mercaptan * Mercury

    See also

    * blue mass * calomel * cinnabar * cinnabarite * corderoite * corrosive sublimate * Good King Henry * livingstonite * sublimate * thimerosal, thiomersal English eponyms

    bismuth

    English

    Noun

    (-) (wikipedia bismuth)
  • A chemical element (symbol Bi) with an atomic number of 83.

    • Derived terms

    * acicular bismuth * bismite * bismuth acetate * bismuthal * bismuthane * bismuth-blende * bismuth bromide * bismuth carbonate * bismuth chloride * bismuth citrate * bismuth fluoride * bismuth-glance * bismuth hydride * bismuthic * bismuthide * bismuthine * bismuthinite * bismuthite, bismutite * bismuth iodide * bismuth molybdate * bismuth-nickel * bismuth nitrate * bismuth nitrate pentahydrate * bismuth-ocher, bismuth-ochre * bismuth orthoborate * bismuth orthophosphate * bismuthous * bismuth oxide * bismuth oxycarbonate * bismuth oxychloride * bismuth oxyiodide * bismuth pentoxide * bismuth selenide * bismuth silicate * bismuth-silver * bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide * bismuth subnitrate * bismuth subsalicylate * bismuth sulfide, bismuth sulphide * bismuth telluride * bismuth-tellurium * bismuth triacetate * bismuth tribromide * bismuth trichloride * bismuth trifluoride * bismuth triiodide * bismuth trinitrate * bismuth trioxide * bismuth triselenide * bismuth trisulfate, bismuth trisulphate * bismuth trisulfide, bismuth trisulphide * bismuthyl * butter of bismuth * eka-bismuth * flowers of bismuth * magistery of bismuth * magnesium bismuthide * mineral bismuth * native bismuth * regulus of bismuth * telluric bismuth * telluride of bismuth * tellurobismuthite * white bismuth

    Related terms

    * bismanol * BSCCO * (Pepto-Bismol)

    See also

    * tetradymite ----