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Mercaptan
- - Any one of series of compounds having an -SH radical attached to a carbon atom, also considered as hydrosulphides of alcohol radicals, in composition resembling the alcohols, but containing sulphur in place of oxygen, and hence called also the sulphur alcohols. In general, they are colorless liquids having a strong, repulsive, garlic odor. The name is specifically applied to ethyl mercaptan, C2H5SH. So called from its avidity for mercury, and other metals.
Mercature
- - Commerce; traffic; trade.
Mercenary
- adjective - a person hired to fight for another country than their own
- marked by materialism
- Private soldier
- profit oriented; "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary enterprise"; "a moneymaking business"
- serving for wages in a foreign army; "mercenary killers"
Mercerise
- verb - treat to strengthen and improve the luster; "mercerize cotton"
Mercerize
- verb - treat to strengthen and improve the luster; "mercerize cotton"
Merchants
- noun - a businessperson engaged in retail trade
Merciless
- adjective - having or showing no mercy; "the merciless enemy"; "a merciless critic"; "gave him a merciless beating"
Mercurial
- adjective - liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"
- relating to or containing or caused by mercury; "mercurial preparations"; "mercurial sore mouth"
- relating to or having characteristics (eloquence, shrewdness, swiftness, thievishness) attributed to the god Mercury; "more than Mercurial thievishness"
- relating to or under the (astrological) influence of the planet Mercury; "the Mercurial canals"
Mercuries
- noun - (Roman mythology) messenger of Jupiter and god of commerce; counterpart of Greek Hermes
- a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
- temperature measured by a mercury thermometer; "the mercury was falling rapidly"
- the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun