Turkish bath
steam bath
vapor bath
vapour bath | you sweat in a steam room before getting a rubdown and cold shower |
clinical thermometer
mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer | a mercury thermometer designed to measure the temperature of the human body, graduated to cover a range a few degrees on either side of the normal body temperature |
| mercury barometer | barometer that shows pressure by the height of a column of mercury |
| mercury cell | a primary cell consisting of a zinc anode and a cathode of mercury oxide and an electrolyte of potassium hydroxide |
mercury thermometer
mercury-in-glass thermometer | thermometer consisting of mercury contained in a bulb at the bottom of a graduated sealed glass capillary tube marked in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit, mercury expands with a rise in temperature causing a thin thread of mercury to rise in the tube |
| mercury-vapor lamp | ultraviolet lamp that emits a strong bluish light (rich in ultraviolet radiation) as electric current passes through mercury vapor |
sodium-vapor lamp
sodium-vapour lamp | lamp in which an electric current passed through a tube of sodium vapor makes a yellow light, used is street lighting |
steam bath
steam room
vapor bath
vapour bath | a room that can be filled with steam in which people bathe, `vapour bath' is a British term |
vapor lock
vapour lock | a stoppage in a pipeline caused by gas bubbles (especially a stoppage that develops in hot weather in an internalombustion engine when fuel in the gas line boils and forms bubbles that block the flow of gasoline to the carburetor) |
vapor density
vapour density | the density of a gas relative to the density of hydrogen |
| mercury | temperature measured by a mercury thermometer, the mercury was falling rapidly |
| Mercury program | a program of rocket-powered flights undertaken by US between and with the goal of putting a man in orbit around the earth, under the Mercury program each flight had one astronaut |
| Mercury | the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun |
| Mercury | (Roman mythology) messenger of Jupiter and god of commerce, counterpart of Greek Hermes |
vapor pressure
vapour pressure | the pressure exerted by a vapor, often understood to mean saturated vapor pressure (the vapor pressure of a vapor in contact with its liquid form) |
poison ivy
markweed
poison mercury
poison oak Toxicodendron radicans
Rhus radicans | climbing plant common in eastern and central United States with ternate leaves and greenish flowers followed by white berries, yields an irritating oil that causes a rash on contact |
three-seeded mercury
Acalypha virginica | weedy herb of eastern North America |
herb mercury
herbs mercury
boys-and-girls
Mercurialis annua | Eurafrican annual naturalized in America as a weed, formerly dried for use as a purgative, diuretic or antisyphilitic |
dog's mercury
dog mercury
Mercurialis perennis | European perennial weedy plant with greenish flowers |
vaporization
vaporisation
vapor
vapour
evaporation | the process of becoming a vapor |
torr
millimeter of mercury
mm Hg | a unit of pressure equal to . atmosphere, named after Torricelli |
| mercury poisoning | a toxic condition caused by ingesting or inhaling mercury, acute mercury poisoning causes a metallic taste and vomiting and diarrhea and kidney problems that may lead to death |
mercury
quicksilver
hydrargyrum
Hg
atomic number | a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element, the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures |
mercury fulminate
fulminate of mercury
fulminating mercury | a fulminate that when dry explodes violently if struck or heated, used in detonators and blasting caps and percussion caps |
mercuric chloride
mercury chloride
bichloride of mercury
corrosive sublimate | a white poisonous soluble crystalline sublimate of mercury, used as a pesticide or antiseptic or wood preservative |
water vapor
water vapour | water in a vaporous form diffused in the atmosphere but below boiling temperature |
| vapor vapour | a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance |
| mercury-contaminated | contaminated by mercury |