quick-silver
quick-silver (subs.):
1. argentum vivum: (the metal as found in its native state): Plin. 33, 6, 32: ib. 7, 40: Vitruv.
2. hydrargy̆rus, m.: (the word now used in chemistry, symbol Hg), an artificial preparation from minium (sulphide of mercury), which Pliny distinguishes from the metal, but which seems only to have differed from native quicksilver in purity: Plin. 33, 6, 32: and esp. ib. 8, 41.
3. mercŭrius, m.: med. Lat.--Hence the verb, to quicksilver: hydrargyro inaurare: cf. hydrargyro argentum inauratur: Plin. 33, 8, 42.
1. argentum vivum: (the metal as found in its native state): Plin. 33, 6, 32: ib. 7, 40: Vitruv.
2. hydrargy̆rus, m.: (the word now used in chemistry, symbol Hg), an artificial preparation from minium (sulphide of mercury), which Pliny distinguishes from the metal, but which seems only to have differed from native quicksilver in purity: Plin. 33, 6, 32: and esp. ib. 8, 41.
3. mercŭrius, m.: med. Lat.--Hence the verb, to quicksilver: hydrargyro inaurare: cf. hydrargyro argentum inauratur: Plin. 33, 8, 42.