Caducean: alternatives and connections

A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two.

The salt of wisdom of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimu…

Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. B…

an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all m…

To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.

The act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; -- applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver f…

One who, or that which, amalgamates. Specifically: A machine for separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing them in…

The first principle of metals, i. e., mercury, which was formerly supposed to exist in all metals, and to be extractable from them.

Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury.

Mild chloride of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in medicine as a mer…

(medicine) the process of removing a heavy metal from the bloodstream by means of a chelate as in treating lead or mercury poisoning

The elements of the alchemists were salt, sulphur, and mercury.

Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand.

a metal of relatively high density (specific gravity greater than about 5) or of high relative atomic weight (especially one that is p…

Of or pertaining to mercury; containing, or impregnated with, mercury.

Being in such a state that the component parts move freely among themselves, but do not tend to separate from each other as the partic…

(astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercu…

An instrument for measuring the tension or elastic force of gases, steam, etc., constructed usually on the principle of allowing the g…