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# mercury

«mercury» in Mova's school dictionary: **a silvery metal that is liquid at room temperature; it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (mercury — uncountable, the metal; Mercury — the planet, the Roman god)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Mercury is a silvery metal that is liquid at room temperature; it was used in old thermometers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mercury/#m1)

2) Mercury (with a capital M) is the planet closest to the Sun and the smallest planet in our Solar System. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mercury/#m2)

3) Mercury was the Roman messenger god, with wings on his sandals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mercury/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science, Mercury the planet orbits the Sun in 88 days; it has almost no air, so it is very hot by day and freezing at night; it has no moons and many craters. Mercury the metal is poisonous, so modern thermometers use other liquids or digital sensors; if an old thermometer breaks, do not touch the silver drops — tell an adult. «The mercury is rising» means the temperature is going up. Phrases: «planet Mercury», «mercury thermometer», «the mercury is rising».

### examples

- Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mercury/#x1)
- A year on Mercury lasts only 88 Earth days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mercury/#x2)
- Mercury has no moons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mercury/#x3)
- Mercury is a metal that is liquid at room temperature. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mercury/#x4)
- Old thermometers had mercury inside them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mercury/#x5)
- Don't touch the mercury from a broken thermometer; it is poisonous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mercury/#x6)
- The mercury rose to 40 degrees in Adelaide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mercury/#x7)
- The god Mercury had wings on his sandals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mercury/#x8)

### note

Capital M for the planet and the god; small m for the metal. The planet's order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Myth: Mercury is the closest to the Sun, but Venus, not Mercury, is the hottest planet, because of its thick atmosphere.

### In the corpora

- [Old glass thermometers may contain mercury, which is poisonous, so a grown-up must clean up a broken one.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/111-chores-and-broken-things/18/)
- [lundi comes from the Moon, mardi from Mars, mercredi from Mercury, jeudi from Jupiter and vendredi from Venus.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/6/)
- [Mining can poison rivers with acid and toxic metals such as mercury and arsenic.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost/14/)
- [Mercury is the smallest planet and the closest to the Sun, a grey, cratered ball only a little bigger than our Moon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/3-mercury/0/)
- [Mercury is the smallest planet and the closest to the Sun, only a little bigger than our Moon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/3-mercury/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mercury» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mercury/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.