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the marriage of mercury to anything that will hold still long enough
dental pastFilled cavities with liquid metal for 150 years
gold trickMercury dissolves gold, then boils away to leave it
word originPossibly from Arabic for the act of mating
liquid alloyMercury makes metals soft, paste-like, or fully fluid
mad hattersMercury fumes from amalgams poisoned hat-makers into madness