Mercury (element), the Glossary

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1. 408 relations: Acrodynia, Activated carbon, Adsorption, Al-Andalus, Albacore, Alchemical symbol, Alchemy, Alexander Calder, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alkyl group, Allies of World War II, Alloy, Almadén, Almaden Quicksilver County Park, Aluminium, Aluminium amalgam, Aluminium oxide, Amalgam (chemistry), Amalgam (dentistry), Ammonia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek, Anomalous X-ray scattering, Anti-fouling paint, Antidepressant, Antiseptic, Aqua regia, Argon, Aristotle, Aryl group, Atomic number, Attractive nuisance doctrine, Autism, Ballcock, Barcelona, Barometer, Binary cycle, Biomagnification, Biopsy, Block (periodic table), Blue mass, Bluefin tuna, Boiling point, Bromine, Bulk modulus, Cadmium, Caesium, Calcination, Calomel, ... Expand index (358 more) »

2. Chemical elements with rhombohedral structure
3. Coolants
4. Nuclear reactor coolants

Acrodynia

Acrodynia is a medical condition which occurs due to mercury poisoning.

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Activated carbon

Activated carbon, also called activated charcoal, is a form of carbon commonly used to filter contaminants from water and air, among many other uses.

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Adsorption

Adsorption is the adhesion of atoms, ions or molecules from a gas, liquid or dissolved solid to a surface.

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Al-Andalus

Al-Andalus was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Albacore

The albacore (Thunnus alalunga), known also as the longfin tuna, is a species of tuna of the order Scombriformes.

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Alchemical symbol

Alchemical symbols were used to denote chemical elements and compounds, as well as alchemical apparatus and processes, until the 18th century.

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Alchemy

Alchemy (from Arabic: al-kīmiyā; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, khumeía) is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practised in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe.

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Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford.

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Alkyl group

In organic chemistry, an alkyl group is an alkane missing one hydrogen.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.

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Alloy

An alloy is a mixture of chemical elements of which in most cases at least one is a metallic element, although it is also sometimes used for mixtures of elements; herein only metallic alloys are described.

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Almadén

Almadén is a town and municipality in the spanish province of Ciudad Real, within the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha.

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Almaden Quicksilver County Park

Almaden Quicksilver County Park is a 4,163 acres (17 km2) park that includes the grounds of former mercury ("quicksilver") mines adjacent to south San Jose, California, USA.

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Aluminium

Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13. Mercury (element) and Aluminium are chemical elements and native element minerals.

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Aluminium amalgam

Aluminium can form an amalgam in solution with mercury.

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Aluminium oxide

Aluminium oxide (or aluminium(III) oxide) is a chemical compound of aluminium and oxygen with the chemical formula.

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Amalgam (chemistry)

An amalgam is an alloy of mercury with another metal.

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Amalgam (dentistry)

In dentistry, amalgam is an alloy of mercury used to fill teeth cavities.

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Ammonia

Ammonia is an inorganic chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.

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Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.

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Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Anomalous X-ray scattering

Anomalous X-ray scattering (AXRS or XRAS) is a non-destructive determination technique within X-ray diffraction that makes use of the anomalous dispersion that occurs when a wavelength is selected that is in the vicinity of an absorption edge of one of the constituent elements of the sample.

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Anti-fouling paint

Anti-fouling paint is a specialized category of coatings applied as the outer (outboard) layer to the hull of a ship or boat, to slow the growth of and facilitate detachment of subaquatic organisms that attach to the hull and can affect a vessel's performance and durability.

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Antidepressant

Antidepressants are a class of medications used to treat major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, chronic pain, and addiction.

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Antiseptic

An antiseptic (lit and label) is an antimicrobial substance or compound that is applied to living tissue to reduce the possibility of sepsis, infection or putrefaction.

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Aqua regia

Aqua regia (from Latin, "regal water" or "royal water") is a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid, optimally in a molar ratio of 1:3.

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Argon

Argon is a chemical element; it has symbol Ar and atomic number 18. Mercury (element) and Argon are chemical elements.

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Aristotle

Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.

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Aryl group

In organic chemistry, an aryl is any functional group or substituent derived from an aromatic ring, usually an aromatic hydrocarbon, such as phenyl and naphthyl.

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Atomic number

The atomic number or nuclear charge number (symbol Z) of a chemical element is the charge number of an atomic nucleus.

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Attractive nuisance doctrine

The attractive nuisance doctrine applies to the law of torts in some jurisdictions.

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Autism

Autism, also called autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autism spectrum condition (ASC), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by symptoms of deficient reciprocal social communication and the presence of restricted, repetitive and inflexible patterns of behavior that are impairing in multiple contexts and excessive or atypical to be developmentally and socioculturally inappropriate.

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Ballcock

A ballcock (also balltap or float valve) is a mechanism or machine for filling water tanks, such as those found in flush toilets, while avoiding overflow and (in the event of low water pressure) backflow.

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Barcelona

Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.

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Barometer

A barometer is a scientific instrument that is used to measure air pressure in a certain environment.

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Binary cycle

A binary cycle is a method for generating electrical power from geothermal resources and employs two separate fluid cycles, hence binary cycle.

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Biomagnification

Biomagnification, also known as bioamplification or biological magnification, is the increase in concentration of a substance, e.g a pesticide, in the tissues of organisms at successively higher levels in a food chain.

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Biopsy

A biopsy is a medical test commonly performed by a surgeon, an interventional radiologist, or an interventional cardiologist.

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Block (periodic table)

A block of the periodic table is a set of elements unified by the atomic orbitals their valence electrons or vacancies lie in.

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Blue mass

Blue mass (also known as blue pill or pilula hydrargyri) was the name of a mercury-based medicine common from the 17th to the 19th centuries.

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Bluefin tuna

Bluefin tuna is a common name used to refer to several species of tuna of the genus Thunnus.

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Boiling point

The boiling point of a substance is the temperature at which the vapor pressure of a liquid equals the pressure surrounding the liquid and the liquid changes into a vapor.

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Bromine

Bromine is a chemical element; it has symbol Br and atomic number 35. Mercury (element) and Bromine are chemical elements.

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Bulk modulus

The bulk modulus (K or B or k) of a substance is a measure of the resistance of a substance to bulk compression.

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Cadmium

Cadmium is a chemical element; it has symbol Cd and atomic number 48. Mercury (element) and Cadmium are chemical elements, Endocrine disruptors, native element minerals and transition metals.

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Caesium

Caesium (IUPAC spelling; cesium in American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Cs and atomic number 55. Mercury (element) and Caesium are chemical elements.

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Calcination

Calcination is thermal treatment of a solid chemical compound (e.g. mixed carbonate ores) whereby the compound is raised to high temperature without melting under restricted supply of ambient oxygen (i.e. gaseous O2 fraction of air), generally for the purpose of removing impurities or volatile substances and/or to incur thermal decomposition.

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Calomel

Calomel is a mercury chloride mineral with formula Hg2Cl2 (see mercury(I) chloride).

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Cartridge (firearms)

A cartridge, also known as a round, is a type of pre-assembled firearm ammunition packaging a projectile (bullet, shot, or slug), a propellant substance (smokeless powder, black powder substitute, or black powder) and an ignition device (primer) within a metallic, paper, or plastic case that is precisely made to fit within the barrel chamber of a breechloading gun, for convenient transportation and handling during shooting.

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Case–control study

A case–control study (also known as case–referent study) is a type of observational study in which two existing groups differing in outcome are identified and compared on the basis of some supposed causal attribute.

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Castner–Kellner process

The Castner–Kellner process is a method of electrolysis on an aqueous alkali chloride solution (usually sodium chloride solution) to produce the corresponding alkali hydroxide, invented by American Hamilton Castner and Austrian Carl Kellner in the 1890s.

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Cathode

A cathode is the electrode from which a conventional current leaves a polarized electrical device.

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Cement

A cement is a binder, a chemical substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together.

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Cement kiln

Cement kilns are used for the pyroprocessing stage of manufacture of portland and other types of hydraulic cement, in which calcium carbonate reacts with silica-bearing minerals to form a mixture of calcium silicates.

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Chalcogen

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Chelation

Chelation is a type of bonding of ions and the molecules to metal ions.

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Chelation therapy

Chelation therapy is a medical procedure that involves the administration of chelating agents to remove heavy metals from the body.

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Chemical compound

A chemical compound is a chemical substance composed of many identical molecules (or molecular entities) containing atoms from more than one chemical element held together by chemical bonds.

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Chemical element

A chemical element is a chemical substance that cannot be broken down into other substances by chemical reactions. Mercury (element) and chemical element are chemical elements.

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Chemical symbol

Chemical symbols are the abbreviations used in chemistry, mainly for chemical elements; but also for functional groups, chemical compounds, and other entities. Mercury (element) and chemical symbol are chemical elements.

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Chemistry World

Chemistry World is a monthly chemistry news magazine published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Chloralkali process

The chloralkali process (also chlor-alkali and chlor alkali) is an industrial process for the electrolysis of sodium chloride (NaCl) solutions.

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Chlorine

Chlorine is a chemical element; it has symbol Cl and atomic number 17. Mercury (element) and Chlorine are chemical elements.

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Chrysopoeia

In alchemy, the term chrysopoeia refers to the artificial production of gold, most commonly by the alleged transmutation of base metals such as lead.

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Cinnabar

Cinnabar, or cinnabarite, also known as mercurblende is the bright scarlet to brick-red form of mercury(II) sulfide (HgS).

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Clean Air Act (United States)

The Clean Air Act (CAA) is the United States' primary federal air quality law, intended to reduce and control air pollution nationwide.

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Clean Water Act

The Clean Water Act (CWA) is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution.

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Coal-fired power station

A coal-fired power station or coal power plant is a thermal power station which burns coal to generate electricity.

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Cognition

Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".

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Cold cathode

A cold cathode is a cathode that is not electrically heated by a filament.

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COLEX process

The COLEX process (or COLEX separation) is a chemical method of isotopic separation of lithium-6 and lithium-7, based on the use of mercury.

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Compact fluorescent lamp

A compact fluorescent lamp (CFL), also called compact fluorescent light, energy-saving light and compact fluorescent tube, is a fluorescent lamp designed to replace an incandescent light bulb; some types fit into light fixtures designed for incandescent bulbs.

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Coolant

A coolant is a substance, typically liquid, that is used to reduce or regulate the temperature of a system. Mercury (element) and coolant are coolants.

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Coordination geometry

The coordination geometry of an atom is the geometrical pattern defined by the atoms around the central atom.

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Copernicium

Copernicium is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Cn and atomic number 112. Mercury (element) and Copernicium are chemical elements and transition metals.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29. Mercury (element) and Copper are chemical elements, native element minerals and transition metals.

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Corderoite

Corderoite is an extremely rare mercury sulfide chloride mineral with formula Hg3S2Cl2.

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Corrosion

Corrosion is a natural process that converts a refined metal into a more chemically stable oxide.

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Cosmetics

Cosmetics are composed of mixtures of chemical compounds derived from either natural sources or synthetically created ones.

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Cremation

Cremation is a method of final disposition of a dead body through burning.

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Crust (geology)

In geology, the crust is the outermost solid shell of a planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite.

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Cryosphere

The cryosphere is an umbrella term for those portions of Earth's surface where water is in solid form.

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Crystal polymorphism

In crystallography, polymorphism is the phenomenon where a compound or element can crystallize into more than one crystal structure.

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Cyclam

Cyclam (1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane) is an organic compound with the formula (NHCH2CH2NHCH2CH2CH2)2.

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Daedalus

In Greek mythology, Daedalus (Greek: Δαίδαλος; Latin: Daedalus; Etruscan: Taitale) was a skillful architect and craftsman, seen as a symbol of wisdom, knowledge and power.

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Daguerreotype

Daguerreotype (daguerréotype) was the first publicly available photographic process, widely used during the 1840s and 1850s.

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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS (24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736) was a physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker, born in Poland to a family of German extraction.

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Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire.

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Deep Space Atomic Clock

The Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC) was a miniaturized, ultra-precise mercury-ion atomic clock for precise radio navigation in deep space.

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Density

Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is a substance's mass per unit of volume.

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Dental restoration

Dental restoration, dental fillings, or simply fillings are treatments used to restore the function, integrity, and morphology of missing tooth structure resulting from caries or external trauma as well as to the replacement of such structure supported by dental implants.

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Detonator

A detonator, sometimes called a blasting cap in the US, is a small sensitive device used to provoke a larger, more powerful but relatively insensitive secondary explosive of an explosive device used in commercial mining, excavation, demolition, etc.

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Diamagnetism

Diamagnetism is the property of materials that are repelled by a magnetic field; an applied magnetic field creates an induced magnetic field in them in the opposite direction, causing a repulsive force.

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Diffusion pump

Diffusion pumps use a high speed jet of vapor to direct gas molecules in the pump throat down into the bottom of the pump and out the exhaust.

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Dimercaprol

Dimercaprol, also called British anti-Lewisite (BAL), is a medication used to treat acute poisoning by arsenic, mercury, gold, and lead.

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Dimethylmercury

Dimethylmercury is an extremely toxic organomercury compound with the formula (CH3)2Hg. Mercury (element) and Dimethylmercury are Neurotoxins.

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Disinfectant

A disinfectant is a chemical substance or compound used to inactivate or destroy microorganisms on inert surfaces.

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Diuretic

A diuretic is any substance that promotes diuresis, the increased production of urine.

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Divination

Divination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic ritual or practice.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.

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Drug overdose

A drug overdose (overdose or OD) is the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities much greater than are recommended.

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Electrical ballast

An electrical ballast is a device placed in series with a load to limit the amount of current in an electrical circuit.

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Electrical resistivity and conductivity

Electrical resistivity (also called volume resistivity or specific electrical resistance) is a fundamental specific property of a material that measures its electrical resistance or how strongly it resists electric current.

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Electrochemical cell

An electrochemical cell is a device that generates electrical energy from chemical reactions.

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Electrochemistry

Electrochemistry is the branch of physical chemistry concerned with the relationship between electrical potential difference and identifiable chemical change.

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Electrode

An electrode is an electrical conductor used to make contact with a nonmetallic part of a circuit (e.g. a semiconductor, an electrolyte, a vacuum or air).

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Electrode potential

In electrochemistry, electrode potential is the voltage of a galvanic cell built from a standard reference electrode and another electrode to be characterized.

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Electrolysis

In chemistry and manufacturing, electrolysis is a technique that uses direct electric current (DC) to drive an otherwise non-spontaneous chemical reaction.

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Emissions trading

Emissions trading is a market-based approach to controlling pollution by providing economic incentives for reducing the emissions of pollutants.

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Environment and Climate Change Canada

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC; Environnement et Changement climatique Canada)Environment and Climate Change Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of the Environment.

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Environmental Science & Technology

Environmental Science & Technology is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 1967 by the American Chemical Society.

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Erethism

Erethism, also known as erethismus mercurialis, mad hatter disease, or mad hatter syndrome, is a neurological disorder which affects the whole central nervous system, as well as a symptom complex, derived from mercury poisoning. Erethism is characterized by behavioral changes such as irritability, low self-confidence, depression, apathy, shyness and timidity, and in some extreme cases with prolonged exposure to mercury vapors, by delirium, personality changes and memory loss.

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Erik Solheim

Erik Solheim (born 18 January 1955) is a Norwegian diplomat and former politician.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Explosive

An explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.

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Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne

The Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life) was held from 25 May to 25 November 1937 in Paris, France.

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Eye drop

Eye drops or eyedrops are liquid drops applied directly to the surface of the eye usually in small amounts such as a single drop or a few drops.

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Fahrenheit

The Fahrenheit scale is a temperature scale based on one proposed in 1724 by the European physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736).

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Felt

Felt is a textile that is produced by matting, condensing, and pressing fibers together.

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Fish

A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.

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Flask (unit)

Flask is a British unit of mass or weight in the avoirdupois system, used to measure mercury.

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Flerovium

Flerovium is a superheavy synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Fl and atomic number 114. Mercury (element) and Flerovium are chemical elements.

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Fluorescence

Fluorescence is one of two kinds of emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation.

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Fluorescent lamp

A fluorescent lamp, or fluorescent tube, is a low-pressure mercury-vapor gas-discharge lamp that uses fluorescence to produce visible light.

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Food and Drug Administration

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Food chain

A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web, often starting with an autotroph (such as grass or algae), also called a producer, and typically ending at an apex predator (such as grizzly bears or killer whales), detritivore (such as earthworms and woodlice), or decomposer (such as fungi or bacteria).

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Foshan

Foshan is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China.

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Fresnel lens

A Fresnel lens is a type of composite compact lens which reduces the amount of material required compared to a conventional lens by dividing the lens into a set of concentric annular sections.

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Fundació Joan Miró

The Fundació Joan Miró ("Joan Miró Foundation, Centre of Studies of Contemporary Art") is a museum of modern art honoring Joan Miró located on the hill called Montjuïc in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain).

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Galinstan

Galinstan is a brand name for an alloy composed of gallium, indium, and tin which melts at and is thus liquid at room temperature.

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Gallium

Gallium is a chemical element; it has the symbol Ga and atomic number 31. Mercury (element) and Gallium are chemical elements and coolants.

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Gas-filled tube

A gas-filled tube, also commonly known as a discharge tube or formerly as a Plücker tube, is an arrangement of electrodes in a gas within an insulating, temperature-resistant envelope.

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Geochemistry

Geochemistry is the science that uses the tools and principles of chemistry to explain the mechanisms behind major geological systems such as the Earth's crust and its oceans.

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Germicidal lamp

A germicidal lamp (also known as disinfection lamp or sterilizer lamp) is an electric light that produces ultraviolet C (UVC) light.

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Glenn Research Center

NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field is a NASA center within the cities of Brook Park and Cleveland between Cleveland Hopkins International Airport and the Rocky River Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks, with a subsidiary facility in Sandusky, Ohio.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79. Mercury (element) and Gold are chemical elements, native element minerals and transition metals.

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Great Lakes

The Great Lakes (Grands Lacs), also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the east-central interior of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.

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Guangzhou

Guangzhou, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China.

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Guizhou

Guizhou is an inland province in Southwestern China.

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Half-cell

In electrochemistry, a half-cell is a structure that contains a conductive electrode and a surrounding conductive electrolyte separated by a naturally occurring Helmholtz double layer.

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Half-life

Half-life (symbol) is the time required for a quantity (of substance) to reduce to half of its initial value.

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Hatter (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

The Hatter is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass.

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Hazardous waste

Hazardous waste is waste that must be handled properly to avoid damaging human health or the environment. Mercury (element) and Hazardous waste are Occupational safety and health.

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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (21 September 185321 February 1926) was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate.

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Hemoptysis

Hemoptysis or haemoptysis is the discharge of blood or blood-stained mucus through the mouth coming from the bronchi, larynx, trachea, or lungs.

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Herbicide

Herbicides, also commonly known as weed killers, are substances used to control undesired plants, also known as weeds.

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Hexavalent chromium

Hexavalent chromium (chromium(VI), Cr(VI), chromium 6) is any chemical compound that contains the element in the +6 oxidation state (thus hexavalent).

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Hot spring

A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth.

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HRL Laboratories

HRL Laboratories (formerly Hughes Research Laboratories) is a research center in Malibu, California, established in 1960.

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HSAB theory

HSAB is an acronym for "hard and soft (Lewis) acids and bases".

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Huancavelica

Huancavelica or Wankawillka in Quechua is a city in Peru.

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Hydraulic mining

Hydraulic mining is a form of mining that uses high-pressure jets of water to dislodge rock material or move sediment.

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Hydrogen sulfide

Hydrogen sulfide is a chemical compound with the formula.

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Idrija

Idrija (in older sources Zgornja Idrija; (Ober)idria, Idria) is a town in western Slovenia.

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Ignitron

An ignitron is a type of gas-filled tube used as a controlled rectifier and dating from the 1930s.

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Immune system

The immune system is a network of biological systems that protects an organism from diseases.

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Incineration

Incineration is a waste treatment process that involves the combustion of substances contained in waste materials. Mercury (element) and Incineration are Occupational safety and health.

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Infrared detector

An infrared detector is a detector that reacts to infrared (IR) radiation.

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International Joint Commission

The International Joint Commission (Commission mixte internationale) is a bi-national organization established by the governments of the United States and Canada under the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909.

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International Temperature Scale of 1990

The International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90) is an equipment calibration standard specified by the International Committee of Weights and Measures (CIPM) for making measurements on the Kelvin and Celsius temperature scales.

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Ion thruster

An ion thruster, ion drive, or ion engine is a form of electric propulsion used for spacecraft propulsion.

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Ionization

Ionization (or ionisation specifically in Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand) is the process by which an atom or a molecule acquires a negative or positive charge by gaining or losing electrons, often in conjunction with other chemical changes.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element. Mercury (element) and Iron are chemical elements, native element minerals and transition metals.

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Irritant diaper dermatitis

Irritant diaper dermatitis (IDD, also called a diaper or nappy rash) is a generic term applied to skin rash in the diaper (in British and Australian English "nappy") area that are caused by various skin disorders and/or irritants.

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Isomorphous replacement

Isomorphous replacement (IR) is historically the most common approach to solving the phase problem in X-ray crystallography studies of proteins.

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Isotope

Isotopes are distinct nuclear species (or nuclides) of the same chemical element.

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Isotopes of lithium

Naturally occurring lithium (3Li) is composed of two stable isotopes, lithium-6 (6Li) and lithium-7 (7Li), with the latter being far more abundant on Earth.

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Jade

Jade is an umbrella term for two different types of decorative rocks used for jewelry or ornaments.

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James Lind (naturalist)

James Lind FRS FRSE FRCPE (May 17, 1736 – October 17, 1812) was a Scottish natural philosopher and physician.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) in La Cañada Flintridge, California, Crescenta Valley, United States.

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Joseph Priestley

Joseph Priestley (24 March 1733 – 6 February 1804) was an English chemist, Unitarian, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator, liberal political theorist.

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Joss paper

Joss paper, also known as incense papers, are papercrafts or sheets of paper made into burnt offerings common in Chinese ancestral worship (such as the veneration of the deceased family members and relatives on holidays and special occasions).

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Kelvin

The kelvin, symbol K, is the base unit of measurement for temperature in the International System of Units (SI).

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Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun

Abu 'l-Jaysh Khumārawayh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn (أبو الجيش خمارويه بن أحمد بن طولون; 864 – 18 January 896) was a son of the founder of the Tulunid dynasty, Ahmad ibn Tulun.

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Kidney

In humans, the kidneys are two reddish-brown bean-shaped blood-filtering organs that are a multilobar, multipapillary form of mammalian kidneys, usually without signs of external lobulation.

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King mackerel

The king mackerel (Scomberomorus cavalla) surmayi or kingfish, is a migratory species of mackerel of the western Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.

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Lamanai

Lamanai (from Lama'anayin, "submerged crocodile" in Yucatec Maya) is a Mesoamerican archaeological site, and was once a major city of the Maya civilization, located in the north of Belize, in Orange Walk District.

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Lanthanide contraction

The lanthanide contraction is the greater-than-expected decrease in atomic radii and ionic radii of the elements in the lanthanide series, from left to right.

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Laxative

Laxatives, purgatives, or aperients are substances that loosen stools and increase bowel movements.

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Lead

Lead is a chemical element; it has symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82. Mercury (element) and Lead are chemical elements, Endocrine disruptors, native element minerals and nuclear reactor coolants.

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Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and Anglican priest.

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Lighthouse

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.

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Liquid helium

Liquid helium is a physical state of helium at very low temperatures at standard atmospheric pressures. Mercury (element) and Liquid helium are coolants.

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A liquid metal electrode is an electrode that uses a liquid metal, such as mercury, Galinstan, and NaK.

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Liquid-mirror telescope

Liquid-mirror telescopes are telescopes with mirrors made with a reflective liquid.

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List of industrial disasters

This article lists notable industrial disasters, which are disasters caused by industrial companies, either by accident, negligence or incompetence.

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Livingstonite

Livingstonite is a mercury antimony sulfosalt mineral.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Lye

A lye is an alkali metal hydroxide.

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Mad as a hatter

"Mad as a hatter" is a colloquial English phrase used in conversation to suggest (lightheartedly) that a person is suffering from insanity.

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Manganese

Manganese is a chemical element; it has symbol Mn and atomic number 25. Mercury (element) and Manganese are chemical elements, native element minerals and transition metals.

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Marine mercury pollution

Mercury is a heavy metal that cycles through the atmosphere, water, and soil in various forms to different parts of the world.

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Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor

The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the Qin dynasty.

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Maya civilization

The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization that existed from antiquity to the early modern period.

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McDermitt, Nevada and Oregon

McDermitt is an unincorporated community straddling the Nevada–Oregon border, in Humboldt County, Nevada, and Malheur County, Oregon, United States.

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Melting point

The melting point (or, rarely, liquefaction point) of a substance is the temperature at which it changes state from solid to liquid.

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Merbromin

Merbromin (marketed as Mercurochrome, Merbromine, Mercurocol, Sodium mercurescein, Asceptichrome, Supercrome, Brocasept and Cinfacromin) is an organomercuric disodium salt compound used as a topical antiseptic for minor cuts and scrapes and as a biological dye.

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Mercurial diuretic

Mercurial diuretics are a form of renal diuretic containing mercury.

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Mercuric amidochloride

Mercuric amidochloride is an inorganic compound with the formula.

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Mercury (mythology)

Mercury (Mercurius) is a major god in Roman religion and mythology, being one of the 12 Dii Consentes within the ancient Roman pantheon.

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Mercury (planet)

Mercury is the first planet from the Sun and the smallest in the Solar System.

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Mercury battery

A mercury battery (also called mercuric oxide battery, mercury cell, button cell, or Ruben-Mallory) is a non-rechargeable electrochemical battery, a primary cell.

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Mercury cadmium telluride

Hg1−xCdxTe or mercury cadmium telluride (also cadmium mercury telluride, MCT, MerCad Telluride, MerCadTel, MerCaT or CMT) is a chemical compound of cadmium telluride (CdTe) and mercury telluride (HgTe) with a tunable bandgap spanning the shortwave infrared to the very long wave infrared regions.

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Mercury coulometer

In electrochemistry, a mercury coulometer is an analytical instrument which uses mercury to perform coulometry (determining the amount of matter transformed in a chemical reaction by measuring electric current) on the following reaction: \ce + \ce These oxidation/reduction processes have 100% efficiency with the wide range of the current densities.

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Mercury fountain

A mercury fountain is a fountain constructed for use with liquid metallic mercury ("quicksilver") rather than water.

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Mercury poisoning

Mercury poisoning is a type of metal poisoning due to exposure to mercury.

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Mercury polycations

Mercury polycations are polyatomic cations that contain only mercury atoms.

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Mercury relay

A mercury relay (mercury displacement relay, mercury contactor) is a relay that uses mercury as the switching element.

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Mercury selenide

Mercury selenide (HgSe; sometimes mercury(II) selenide) is a chemical compound of mercury and selenium.

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Mercury silvering

Mercury silvering or fire gilding is a silvering technique for applying a thin layer of precious metal such as silver or gold (mercury gilding) to a base metal object.

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Mercury sulfide

Mercury sulfide, or mercury(II) sulfide is a chemical compound composed of the chemical elements mercury and sulfur.

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Mercury switch

A mercury switch is an electrical switch that opens and closes a circuit when a small amount of the liquid metal mercury connects metal electrodes to close the circuit.

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Mercury telluride

Mercury telluride (HgTe) is a binary chemical compound of mercury and tellurium.

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Mercury vapour turbine

A mercury vapour turbine is a form of heat engine that uses mercury as the working fluid of its thermal cycle.

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Mercury zinc telluride

Mercury zinc telluride (HgZnTe, MZT) is a telluride of mercury and zinc, an alloy of mercury telluride and zinc telluride.

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Mercury(I) chloride

Mercury(I) chloride is the chemical compound with the formula Hg2Cl2.

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Mercury(I) hydride

Mercury(I) hydride (systematically named mercury hydride) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula HgH.

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Mercury(I) iodide

Mercury(I) iodide is a chemical compound of mercury and iodine.

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Mercury(II) chloride

Mercury(II) chloride (or mercury bichloride, mercury dichloride), historically also known as sulema or corrosive sublimate, is the inorganic chemical compound of mercury and chlorine with the formula HgCl2, used as a laboratory reagent.

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Mercury(II) fulminate

Mercury(II) fulminate, or Hg(CNO)2, is a primary explosive.

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Mercury(II) hydroxide

Mercury(II) hydroxide or mercuric hydroxide is the metal hydroxide with the chemical formula Hg(OH)2.

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Mercury(II) nitrate

Mercury(II) nitrate is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.

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Mercury(II) oxide

Mercury(II) oxide, also called mercuric oxide or simply mercury oxide, is the inorganic compound with the formula HgO.

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Mercury(II) sulfate

Mercury(II) sulfate, commonly called mercuric sulfate, is the chemical compound HgSO4.

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Mercury(IV) fluoride

Mercury(IV) fluoride, HgF4, is the first mercury compound to be reported with mercury in the +4 oxidation state.

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Mercury-arc valve

A mercury-arc valve or mercury-vapor rectifier or (UK) mercury-arc rectifier is a type of electrical rectifier used for converting high-voltage or high-current alternating current (AC) into direct current (DC).

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Mercury-Containing and Rechargeable Battery Management Act

In the United States, the Mercury-Containing and Rechargeable Battery Management Act (the Battery Act) (Public law 104-142) was signed into law on May 13, 1996.

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Mercury-in-glass thermometer

The mercury-in-glass or mercury thermometer is a thermometer that uses the thermal expansion and contraction of liquid mercury to indicate the temperature.

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Mercury-vapor lamp

A mercury-vapor lamp is a gas-discharge lamp that uses an electric arc through vaporized mercury to produce light.

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Merriam-Webster

Merriam-Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books and is mostly known for its dictionaries.

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Mesoamerican ballcourt

A Mesoamerican ballcourt (tlachtli) is a large masonry structure of a type used in Mesoamerica for more than 2,700 years to play the Mesoamerican ballgame, particularly the hip-ball version of the ballgame.

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Metacinnabar is the cubic form of mercury sulfide (HgS).

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A metal is a material that, when polished or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well.

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Methylation

Methylation, in the chemical sciences, is the addition of a methyl group on a substrate, or the substitution of an atom (or group) by a methyl group.

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Methylmercury

Methylmercury (sometimes methyl mercury) is an organometallic cation with the formula.

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Mill (grinding)

A mill is a device, often a structure, machine or kitchen appliance, that breaks solid materials into smaller pieces by grinding, crushing, or cutting.

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Minamata Convention on Mercury

The Minamata Convention on Mercury is an international treaty designed to protect human health and the environment from anthropogenic emissions and releases of mercury and mercury compounds.

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Minamata disease

Minamata disease is a neurological disease caused by severe mercury poisoning.

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Minamata, Kumamoto

is a city located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan.

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Mineral

In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.

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Mirrors in Mesoamerican culture

The use of mirrors in Mesoamerican culture was associated with the idea that they served as portals to a realm that could be seen but not interacted with.

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Monte Amiata

Mount Amiata is the largest of the lava domes in the Amiata lava dome complex located about 20 km northwest of Lake Bolsena in the southern Tuscany region of Italy.

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Municipal solid waste

Municipal solid waste (MSW), commonly known as trash or garbage in the United States and rubbish in Britain, is a waste type consisting of everyday items that are discarded by the public.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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Nasal spray

Nasal sprays are used to deliver medications locally in the nasal cavities or systemically.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.

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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the United States federal agency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness.

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A native metal is any metal that is found pure in its metallic form in nature. Mercury (element) and native metal are native element minerals.

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Natural Resources Defense Council

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a United States-based 501(c)(3) non-profit international environmental advocacy group, with its headquarters in New York City and offices in Washington D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Bozeman, India, and Beijing.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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Neon

Neon is a chemical element; it has symbol Ne and atomic number 10. Mercury (element) and Neon are chemical elements and coolants.

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Neon sign

In the signage industry, neon signs are electric signs lighted by long luminous gas-discharge tubes that contain rarefied neon or other gases.

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Nervous system

In biology, the nervous system is the highly complex part of an animal that coordinates its actions and sensory information by transmitting signals to and from different parts of its body.

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Nevada

Nevada is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States.

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New Spain

New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de Nueva España; Nahuatl: Yankwik Kaxtillan Birreiyotl), originally the Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nicotiana

Nicotiana is a genus of herbaceous plants and shrubs in the family Solanaceae, that is indigenous to the Americas, Australia, Southwestern Africa and the South Pacific.

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Nitric acid

Nitric acid is the inorganic compound with the formula.

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Noble gas

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In metallurgy, non-ferrous metals are metals or alloys that do not contain iron (allotropes of iron, ferrite, and so on) in appreciable amounts.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Nuclear magnetic resonance

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a physical phenomenon in which nuclei in a strong constant magnetic field are perturbed by a weak oscillating magnetic field (in the near field) and respond by producing an electromagnetic signal with a frequency characteristic of the magnetic field at the nucleus.

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Nuclear reactor

A nuclear reactor is a device used to initiate and control a fission nuclear chain reaction or nuclear fusion reactions.

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Occupational Safety and Health Administration

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is a regulatory agency of the United States Department of Labor that originally had federal visitorial powers to inspect and examine workplaces.

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Organ (biology)

In a multicellular organism, an organ is a collection of tissues joined in a structural unit to serve a common function.

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Organic compound

Some chemical authorities define an organic compound as a chemical compound that contains a carbon–hydrogen or carbon–carbon bond; others consider an organic compound to be any chemical compound that contains carbon.

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Organic synthesis

Organic synthesis is a branch of chemical synthesis concerned with the construction of organic compounds.

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Organocadmium chemistry

Organocadmium chemistry describes the physical properties, synthesis, reactions, and use of organocadmium compounds, which are organometallic compounds containing a carbon to cadmium chemical bond.

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Organozinc chemistry

Organozinc chemistry is the study of the physical properties, synthesis, and reactions of organozinc compounds, which are organometallic compounds that contain carbon (C) to zinc (Zn) chemical bonds.

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Over-the-counter drug

Over-the-counter (OTC) drugs are medicines sold directly to a consumer without a requirement for a prescription from a healthcare professional, as opposed to prescription drugs, which may be supplied only to consumers possessing a valid prescription.

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Oxide

An oxide is a chemical compound containing at least one oxygen atom and one other element in its chemical formula.

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Oxidizing acid

An oxidizing acid is a Brønsted acid that is a strong oxidizing agent.

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Oxygen

Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8. Mercury (element) and Oxygen are chemical elements.

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Pan amalgamation

The pan amalgamation process is a method to extract silver from ore, using salt and copper(II) sulfate in addition to mercury.

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Parts-per notation

In science and engineering, the parts-per notation is a set of pseudo-units to describe small values of miscellaneous dimensionless quantities, e.g. mole fraction or mass fraction.

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Patio process

The patio process is a process for extracting silver from ore.

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Peace River

The Peace River (rivière de la Paix) is a river in Canada that originates in the Rocky Mountains of northern British Columbia and flows to the northeast through northern Alberta.

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Penicillamine

Penicillamine, sold under the brand name of Cuprimine among others, is a medication primarily used for the treatment of Wilson's disease.

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Periodic Videos

Periodic Videos (also known as The Periodic Table of Videos) is a video project and YouTube channel on chemistry.

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Permafrost

Permafrost is soil or underwater sediment which continuously remains below for two years or more: the oldest permafrost had been continuously frozen for around 700,000 years.

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Peru

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.

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Petroleum reservoir

A petroleum reservoir or oil and gas reservoir is a subsurface accumulation of hydrocarbons contained in porous or fractured rock formations.

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Phase problem

In physics, the phase problem is the problem of loss of information concerning the phase that can occur when making a physical measurement.

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Phosphor

A phosphor is a substance that exhibits the phenomenon of luminescence; it emits light when exposed to some type of radiant energy.

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Physics Today

Physics Today is the membership magazine of the American Institute of Physics.

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Pig iron

Pig iron, also known as crude iron, is an intermediate good used by the iron industry in the production of steel.

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Placer mining

Placer mining is the mining of stream bed deposits for minerals.

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Platinum

Platinum is a chemical element; it has symbol Pt and atomic number 78. Mercury (element) and Platinum are chemical elements, native element minerals and transition metals.

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Pneumonitis

Pneumonitis describes general inflammation of lung tissue.

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Point source pollution

A point source of pollution is a single identifiable source of air, water, thermal, noise or light pollution.

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Polarography

Polarography is a type of voltammetry where the working electrode is a dropping mercury electrode (DME) or a static mercury drop electrode (SMDE), which are useful for their wide cathodic ranges and renewable surfaces.

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Pollution

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.

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Popular Science

Popular Science (also known as PopSci) is a U.S. popular science website, covering science and technology topics geared toward general readers.

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Potassium tetraiodomercurate(II)

Potassium tetraiodomercurate(II) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.

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Prandtl number

The Prandtl number (Pr) or Prandtl group is a dimensionless number, named after the German physicist Ludwig Prandtl, defined as the ratio of momentum diffusivity to thermal diffusivity.

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Preservative

A preservative is a substance or a chemical that is added to products such as food products, beverages, pharmaceutical drugs, paints, biological samples, cosmetics, wood, and many other products to prevent decomposition by microbial growth or by undesirable chemical changes.

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Pressure measurement

Pressure measurement is the measurement of an applied force by a fluid (liquid or gas) on a surface.

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Prima materia

In alchemy and philosophy, prima materia, materia prima or first matter (for a philosophical exposition refer to: Prime Matter), is the ubiquitous starting material required for the alchemical magnum opus and the creation of the philosopher's stone.

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Primary battery

A primary battery or primary cell is a battery (a galvanic cell) that is designed to be used once and discarded, and it is not rechargeable unlike a secondary cell (rechargeable battery).

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Protein crystallization

Protein crystallization is the process of formation of a regular array of individual protein molecules stabilized by crystal contacts.

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The Protocol on Heavy Metals, a protocol to the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, was adopted in Aarhus, Denmark, in 1998.

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Qin dynasty

The Qin dynasty was the first dynasty of Imperial China.

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Qin Shi Huang

Qin Shi Huang (February 25912 July 210 BC) was the founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor of China.

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Radionuclide

A radionuclide (radioactive nuclide, radioisotope or radioactive isotope) is a nuclide that has excess numbers of either neutrons or protons, giving it excess nuclear energy, and making it unstable.

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Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary is a large American dictionary, first published in 1966 as The Random House Dictionary of the English Language: The Unabridged Edition.

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Red mercury

Red mercury is a discredited substance, most likely a hoax perpetrated by con artists who sought to take advantage of gullible buyers on the black market for arms.

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Relativistic quantum chemistry

Relativistic quantum chemistry combines relativistic mechanics with quantum chemistry to calculate elemental properties and structure, especially for the heavier elements of the periodic table.

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Reservoir

A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.

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Resistance thermometer

Resistance thermometers, also called resistance temperature detectors (RTDs), are sensors used to measure temperature.

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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), enacted in 1976, is the principal federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste.

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Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive

The Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive 2002/95/EC (RoHS 1), short for Directive on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment, was adopted in February 2003 by the European Union.

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River Mersey

The River Mersey is a major river in North West England.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Romanization of Greek

Romanization of Greek is the transliteration (letter-mapping) or transcription (sound-mapping) of text from the Greek alphabet into the Latin alphabet.

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Room temperature

Room temperature, colloquially, denotes the range of air temperatures most people find comfortable indoors while dressed in typical clothing.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society and professional association in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemical sciences".

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Rubidium

Rubidium is a chemical element; it has symbol Rb and atomic number 37. Mercury (element) and Rubidium are chemical elements.

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Rust

Rust is an iron oxide, a usually reddish-brown oxide formed by the reaction of iron and oxygen in the catalytic presence of water or air moisture.

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Safe Drinking Water Act

The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) is the principal federal law in the United States intended to ensure safe drinking water for the public.

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Santa Clara County, California

Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is the sixth-most populous county in the U.S. state of California, with a population of 1,936,259 as of the 2020 census.

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SEAC (computer)

SEAC (Standards Eastern Automatic Computer or Standards Electronic Automatic Computer) was a first-generation electronic computer, built in 1950 by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards (NBS) and was initially called the National Bureau of Standards Interim Computer, because it was a small-scale computer designed to be built quickly and put into operation while the NBS waited for more powerful computers to be completed (the DYSEAC).

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Semiconductor

A semiconductor is a material that has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass.

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SERT-1

SERT-1 (Space Electric Rocket Test) was a NASA probe used to test electrostatic ion thruster design and was built by NASA's Lewis Research Center (now NASA Glenn).

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Sewage sludge

Sewage sludge is the residual, semi-solid material that is produced as a by-product during sewage treatment of industrial or municipal wastewater.

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Shark

Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head.

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Shellfish

Shellfish is a colloquial and fisheries term for exoskeleton-bearing aquatic invertebrates used as food, including various species of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms.

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Shortness of breath

Shortness of breath (SOB), known as dyspnea (in AmE) or dyspnoea (in BrE), is an uncomfortable feeling of not being able to breathe well enough.

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Silver

Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite. Mercury (element) and silver are chemical elements, native element minerals and transition metals.

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Skin whitening

Skin whitening, also known as skin lightening and skin bleaching, is the practice of using chemical substances in an attempt to lighten the skin or provide an even skin color by reducing the melanin concentration in the skin.

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Smelting

Smelting is a process of applying heat and a chemical reducing agent to an ore to extract a desired base metal product.

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Sodium

Sodium is a chemical element; it has symbol Na (from Neo-Latin natrium) and atomic number 11. Mercury (element) and Sodium are chemical elements, coolants and nuclear reactor coolants.

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Sodium amalgam

Sodium amalgam, with the common formula Na(Hg), is an alloy of mercury and sodium.

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Sodium chloride

Sodium chloride, commonly known as edible salt, is an ionic compound with the chemical formula NaCl, representing a 1:1 ratio of sodium and chlorine ions.

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Sodium hydroxide

Sodium hydroxide, also known as lye and caustic soda, is an inorganic compound with the formula.

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Sodium-vapor lamp

A sodium-vapor lamp is a gas-discharge lamp that uses sodium in an excited state to produce light at a characteristic wavelength near 589 nm.

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Spacecraft electric propulsion

Spacecraft electric propulsion (or just electric propulsion) is a type of spacecraft propulsion technique that uses electrostatic or electromagnetic fields to accelerate mass to high speed and thus generating thrust to modify the velocity of a spacecraft in orbit.

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Specific heat capacity

In thermodynamics, the specific heat capacity (symbol) of a substance is the amount of heat that must be added to one unit of mass of the substance in order to cause an increase of one unit in temperature.

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Spectroscopy

Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets electromagnetic spectra.

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Sphalerite

Sphalerite is a sulfide mineral with the chemical formula.

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Sphygmomanometer

A sphygmomanometer, also known as a blood pressure monitor, or blood pressure gauge, is a device used to measure blood pressure, composed of an inflatable cuff to collapse and then release the artery under the cuff in a controlled manner, and a mercury or aneroid manometer to measure the pressure.

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Standard hydrogen electrode

In electrochemistry, the standard hydrogen electrode (abbreviated SHE), is a redox electrode which forms the basis of the thermodynamic scale of oxidation-reduction potentials.

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Standard temperature and pressure

Standard temperature and pressure (STP) or Standard conditions for temperature and pressure are various standard sets of conditions for experimental measurements used to allow comparisons to be made between different sets of data.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron.

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Structural biology

Structural biology, as defined by the Journal of Structural Biology, deals with structural analysis of living material (formed, composed of, and/or maintained and refined by living cells) at every level of organization.

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Sublimation (phase transition)

Sublimation is the transition of a substance directly from the solid to the gas state, without passing through the liquid state.

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Succimer

Succimer, sold under the brand name Chemet among others, is a medication used to treat lead, mercury, and arsenic poisoning.

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Sulfur

Sulfur (also spelled sulphur in British English) is a chemical element; it has symbol S and atomic number 16. Mercury (element) and Sulfur are chemical elements and native element minerals.

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Sulfuric acid

Sulfuric acid (American spelling and the preferred IUPAC name) or sulphuric acid (Commonwealth spelling), known in antiquity as oil of vitriol, is a mineral acid composed of the elements sulfur, oxygen, and hydrogen, with the molecular formula.

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Superconductivity

Superconductivity is a set of physical properties observed in certain materials where electrical resistance vanishes and magnetic fields are expelled from the material.

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Supercritical fluid

A supercritical fluid (SCF) is any substance at a temperature and pressure above its critical point, where distinct liquid and gas phases do not exist, but below the pressure required to compress it into a solid.

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Swordfish

The swordfish (Xiphias gladius), also known as the broadbill in some countries, are large, highly migratory predatory fish characterized by a long, flat, pointed bill.

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Syphilis

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum.

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Tajikistan

Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia.

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Temple of the Feathered Serpent, Teotihuacan

The Temple of the Feathered Serpent is the third largest pyramid at Teotihuacan, a pre-Columbian site in central Mexico (the term Teotihuacan, or Teotihuacano, is also used for the whole civilization and cultural complex associated with the site).

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Teotihuacan

Teotihuacan (Spanish: Teotihuacán) is an ancient Mesoamerican city located in a sub-valley of the Valley of Mexico, which is located in the State of Mexico, northeast of modern-day Mexico City.

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Tetrahedral molecular geometry

In a tetrahedral molecular geometry, a central atom is located at the center with four substituents that are located at the corners of a tetrahedron.

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Thames Estuary

The Thames Estuary is where the River Thames meets the waters of the North Sea, in the south-east of Great Britain.

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Thermal conductivity and resistivity

The thermal conductivity of a material is a measure of its ability to conduct heat.

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Thermal diffusivity

In heat transfer analysis, thermal diffusivity is the thermal conductivity divided by density and specific heat capacity at constant pressure.

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Thermistor

A thermistor is a semiconductor type of resistor whose resistance is strongly dependent on temperature, more so than in standard resistors.

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Thermocouple

A thermocouple, also known as a "thermoelectrical thermometer", is an electrical device consisting of two dissimilar electrical conductors forming an electrical junction.

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Thermometer

A thermometer is a device that measures temperature (the degree of hotness or coldness of an object) or temperature gradient (the rates of change of temperature in space).

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Thiazide

Thiazide refers to both a class of sulfur-containing organic molecules and a class of diuretics based on the chemical structure of benzothiadiazine.

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Thiomersal

Thiomersal (INN), or thimerosal (USAN, JAN), also sold under the name merthiolate is an organomercury compound.

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Thiomersal and vaccines

Thiomersal (or thimerosal) is a mercury compound which is used as a preservative in some vaccines.

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Thyratron

A thyratron is a type of gas-filled tube used as a high-power electrical switch and controlled rectifier.

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Tibet

Tibet (Böd), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about.

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Tilefish

Blue blanquillo, ''Malacanthus latovittatus'' Tilefishes are mostly small perciform marine fish comprising the family Malacanthidae.

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Tin

Tin is a chemical element; it has symbol Sn and atomic number 50. Mercury (element) and Tin are chemical elements and native element minerals.

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Tobacco smoke

Tobacco smoke is a sooty aerosol produced by the incomplete combustion of tobacco during the smoking of cigarettes and other tobacco products.

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Tobacco smoking

Tobacco smoking is the practice of burning tobacco and ingesting the resulting smoke.

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Topical medication

A topical medication is a medication that is applied to a particular place on or in the body.

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Traditional Chinese medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an alternative medical practice drawn from traditional medicine in China.

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Traditional medicine

Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous medicine or folk medicine) comprises medical aspects of traditional knowledge that developed over generations within the folk beliefs of various societies, including indigenous peoples, before the era of modern medicine.

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Triple point

In thermodynamics, the triple point of a substance is the temperature and pressure at which the three phases (gas, liquid, and solid) of that substance coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium.

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Tulunids

The Tulunids, were a Mamluk dynasty of Turkic origin who were the first independent dynasty to rule Egypt, as well as much of Syria, since the Ptolemaic dynasty.

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Ultraviolet

Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths of 10–400 nanometers, shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays.

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United Nations Environment Programme

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system.

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United States Department of Energy

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and energy production, the research and development of nuclear power, the military's nuclear weapons program, nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy, energy-related research, and energy conservation.

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United States Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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United States Public Health Service

The United States Public Health Service (USPHS or PHS) is a collection of agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services concerned with public health, containing nine out of the department's twelve operating divisions.

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University Press of Colorado

The University Press of Colorado is a nonprofit publisher that was established in 1965.

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Vaccine

A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious or malignant disease.

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Venus (mythology)

Venus is a Roman goddess, whose functions encompass love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory.

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Vermilion

Vermilion (sometimes vermillion) is a color family and pigment most often used between antiquity and the 19th century from the powdered mineral cinnabar (a form of mercury sulfide).

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Vinyl chloride

Vinyl chloride is an organochloride with the formula H2C.

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Volcano

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

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Wallops Flight Facility

Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and approximately north-northeast of Norfolk.

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Waste management

Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal.

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Wetland

A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally for a shorter periods.

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Williston Lake

Williston Lake is a reservoir created by the W. A. C. Bennett Dam which is located in the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada.

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Working fluid

For fluid power, a working fluid is a gas or liquid that primarily transfers force, motion, or mechanical energy.

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World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.

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X-ray crystallography

X-ray crystallography is the experimental science of determining the atomic and molecular structure of a crystal, in which the crystalline structure causes a beam of incident X-rays to diffract in specific directions.

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Xenon

Xenon is a chemical element; it has symbol Xe and atomic number 54. Mercury (element) and Xenon are chemical elements.

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Zeolite

Zeolite is a family of several microporous, crystalline aluminosilicate materials commonly used as commercial adsorbents and catalysts.

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Zinc

Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30. Mercury (element) and Zinc are chemical elements, native element minerals and transition metals.

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2,3-Dimercapto-1-propanesulfonic acid

2,3-Dimercapto-1-propanesulfonic acid (abbreviated DMPS) and its sodium salt (known as Unithiol) are chelating agents that form complexes with various heavy metals.

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See also

Chemical elements with rhombohedral structure

• Antimony
• Arsenic
• Bismuth
• Boron
• Mercury (element)
• Samarium

Coolants

• Antifreeze
• Brine
• Carbon dioxide
• Coolant
• Cutting fluid
• Dry ice
• FC-75
• Field's metal
• Fluorinert
• Freeze spray
• Fusible alloy
• Gallium
• Helium
• Hydrofluoroether
• Kerosene
• Liquid air
• Liquid dielectrics
• Liquid helium
• Liquid hydrogen
• Liquid nitrogen
• Mercury (element)
• Mineral oil
• Neon
• Nitrogen
• Perfluoro(2-methyl-3-pentanone)
• Perfluoro-1,3-dimethylcyclohexane
• Perfluorocyclohexane
• Perfluorodecalin
• Perfluorohexane
• Perfluoromethylcyclohexane
• Perfluoromethyldecalin
• Perfluorooctane
• Perfluorotoluene
• Perfluorotributylamine
• Perfluorotripentylamine
• Polyethylene glycol
• Purified water
• Refrigerants
• Slush hydrogen
• Sodium
• Sodium–potassium alloy
• Waterless coolant

Nuclear reactor coolants

• Carbon dioxide
• FLiBe
• FLiNaK
• Heavy water
• Helium
• Lead
• Lead-bismuth eutectic
• Mercury (element)
• Nuclear reactor coolant
• Sodium
• Sodium–potassium alloy
• Water

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element)

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