Mercury
- Chemical element: Hg (Atomic Number: 80)
Noun
mercury (element: )
- (Uncountable) a silvery-colored metallic chemical element, liquid at room temperature, with atomic number 80 and symbol Hg.
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External links
For etymology and more information about the chemical element refer to:
http://elements.vanderkrogt.net/elem/hg.html
(A lot of the translations were taken from that site with permission from the author)
Translations
- Afrikaans: kwik
- Albanian: mërkur
- Arabic: زئبق
- Armenian: mercuru
- Basque: merkurioa
- Belarusian: Ртуць
- Bosnian: Živa
- Breton: merkur (From Peter Vanderkrogt's site)
- Breton: bevargant, arc'hant-bev m
- Bulgarian: Живак
- Catalan: mercuri
- Chinese: 水銀, 汞
- Cornish: arhans
- Croatian: Živa
- Czech: rtuť
- Danish: kviksølv
- Dutch: kwik n
- Esperanto: hidrargo
- Estonian: elavhõbe
- Faroese: kviksilvur
- Finnish: elohopea
- French: mercure m
- Frisian: kwik n
- Friulian: mercuri
- Gallegan: mercurio
- Georgian: ვერცxლის
- German: Quecksilber m
- Greek (modern): Ύδραργυρος
- Hebrew: כספית
- Hungarian: higany
- Icelandic: kvikasilfur
- Interlingua: mercurio
- Irish: mearcair
- Italian: mercurio m (1)
- Japanese: 水銀 (すいぎん, suigin)
- Kashmiri: tãź
- Kazakh: Сынап
- Latin: hydrargyrum
- Latvian: dzīvsudrabs
- Lithuanian: gyvsidabris
- Luxembourgish: quecksëlwer
- Macedonian: Жива
- Malay: merkuri
- Maltese: merkurju
- Manx: mercur
- Mongolian: Улаан
- Norwegian: kvikksølv
- Polish: rtęć f
- Portuguese: mercúrio m(2)
- Romanian: mercur n, hidrargir † n, argint viu †
- Russian: ртуть f (1)
- Scottish Gaelic: mearcair
- Serbian: Жива
- Slovak: ortut
- Slovenian: Živo
- Spanish: mercurio m
- Swedish: kvicksilver
- Tajik: simob
- Thai: ปรอท
- Turkish: civa
- Ukrainian: Ртуть
- Uzbek: Симоб
- Vietnamese: thuỷ
- Welsh: mercwri
Noun
Mercury
- The planet in the solar system with the closest orbit to the Sun.
Translations
- Breton: Merc'her
- Chinese: 水星
- Dutch: Mercurius n
- Esperanto: Merkurio
- Finnish: Merkurius
- French: (la planète) Mercure
- German: Merkur m
- Interlingua: (le planeta) Mercurio
- Italian: (il pianeta) Mercurio m
- Japanese: 水星 (すいせい, suisei)
- Polish: Merkury m
- Portuguese: (o planeta) Mercúrio m
- Russian: Меркурий m
- Spanish: (el planeta) Mercurio