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Mercury vs Jupiter - What's the difference?

mercury | jupiter |

In roman god terms the difference between mercury and jupiter

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 jupiter is the King of the Gods, also called Jove. Equivalent to the Greek Zeus, Jupiter was one of the children of Saturn.

In astronomy terms the difference between mercury and jupiter

is that mercury is the planet in the solar system with the closest orbit to the Sun, named after the god; represented by ☿ while jupiter is the fifth and by far the largest planet in the Solar System, a gas giant, represented by the symbol ♃ in astronomy. Jupiter is known for its Great Red Spot and many moons including the Galilean moons.

As a noun mercury

is a metal.

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

    See also

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

    jupiter

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (astronomy) The fifth and by far the largest planet in the Solar System, a gas giant, represented by the symbol in astronomy. Jupiter is known for its Great Red Spot and many moons including the Galilean moons.
  • (Roman god) The King of the Gods, also called Jove. Equivalent to the Greek Zeus, Jupiter was one of the children of Saturn.
  • Usage notes

    The planet Jupiter takes the adjectival form Jovian'', and not *''Jupiterian''. The planet's demonym is also ''Jovian .

    See also

    * * (wikipedia "Jupiter") * English eponyms ----