Quicksilver: alternatives and connections

Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.

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Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.

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Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain.

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Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain.

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An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmet…

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

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Red sulphide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine.

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Having no certain course; roving about without a fixed destination; wandering; moving; -- hence, applied to the planets as distinguished from the fix…

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Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle whe…

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Quicksilver; mercury.

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Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial…

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A Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower…

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