mercury vs temperature

mercury

noun
  • Ambient pressure or temperature (from the use of mercury in barometers and thermometers). 

  • One of the elemental principles formerly thought to be present in all metals. 

  • Any plant of any species of the genus and the genus Mercurialis. 

  • The poison oak or poison ivy. 

  • An annual plant, annual mercury (Mercurialis annua), formerly grown for its medicinal properties; French mercury, herb mercury. 

  • A silvery-colored, toxic, metallic chemical element, liquid at room temperature, with atomic number 80 and symbol Hg. 

  • A similar edible plant (Blitum bonus-henricus), otherwise known as English mercury or allgood. 

temperature

noun
  • A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer. 

  • An elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses. 

  • A property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the random actual motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents. http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055 

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