Re: pinhole Quicksilver

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From: Gilles Poitras (gilles@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 10 2002 - 12:03:17 PDT

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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:03:17 -0700
From: Gilles Poitras <gilles@exploratorium.edu>
Subject: Re: pinhole Quicksilver

At 11:55 AM -0700 4/10/02, dan defoe wrote:
>Does anyone (everyone but me) know why Hg is called
>Quicksilver? (Latin work "hydrargyrum" means liquid
>silver-but where did Quick come from?) thanks Dan

From Old English: cwicseolfor = living silver

Compare with the latin argentum vivum = living silver.

Source: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language 4th ed.

Gilles Poitras gilles@exploratorium.edu
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