Mercury vs Hermes - What's the difference?
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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.
# (obsolete) Liveliness, volatility.
#* Bishop Burnet
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:
# A similar edible plant, Chenopodium bonus-henricus , otherwise known as English mercury or allgood.
# (US, regional) The poison oak or poison ivy.
(Greek god) The herald and messenger of the gods, and the god of roads, commerce, invention, cunning, and theft.
(astronomy) The planet Mercury when observed as an evening star.
Hermes is a synonym of mercury.
In astronomy terms the difference between mercury and hermes
is that mercury is the planet in the solar system with the closest orbit to the Sun, named after the god; represented by ☿ while hermes is the planet Mercury when observed as an evening star.As proper nouns the difference between mercury and hermes
is that mercury is the Roman god associated with speed, sometimes used as a messenger. He wore winged sandals. Mercury corresponded to the Greek god Hermes while Hermes is the herald and messenger of the gods, and the god of roads, commerce, invention, cunning, and theft.As a noun mercury
is a metal.mercury
English
Noun
(-)- The mercury there has averaged 37.6C, 2.3C above the February norm.
- He was so full of mercury that he could not fix long in any friendship, or to any design.
- 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.