Re: Mercury

[human <human@nh.ultranet.com>]

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[Middle English Mercurie, from Old French, from Latin Mercurius.]

>Mercury, Hg,  from hydrargyrum, greek for  liquid silver =  Kirby A. Smith 

>Hg (mercury) from hydrargentum (watery silver) = Robert L. Myers

>The latin for Mercury is "Hydrargirum" = Igor Kessel

Glad I didn't bolt two or three of these to my Audi over the weekend... 
Does WD40 really have silicone in it?  

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Hg
The symbol for the element mercury.
[New Latin hydrargyrum, mercury, from Latin hydrargyrus, from Greek
hudrarguros : hydr-, hudro-, hydro- + arguros, silver. See litharge.]

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition

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Mercury, in Roman mythology, god of commerce and messenger of the gods;
identified with the Greek HERMES.

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Mercury (mûr´kye-rê) noun
1.	Roman Mythology. A god that served as messenger to the other gods and was
himself the god of commerce, travel, and thievery.
2.	The smallest of the planets and the one nearest the sun, having a
sidereal period of revolution about the sun of 88.0 days at a mean distance
of 58.3 million kilometers (36.2 million miles) and a mean radius of
approximately 2,414 kilometers (1,500 miles).  [Middle English Mercurie,
from Old French, from Latin Mercurius.]