| 单词 | mercury vapour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmercury vapour C1. General attributive (sense 7a), as mercury poisoning, mercury vapour, etc. ΚΠ 1839 H. M. Noad Course Eight Lect. 353 A small short wire used to connect its mercury cups. 1863 Sci. Amer. 2 May 279 The light obtained from incandescent mercury vapor is very inferior to that obtained between pieces of carbon. 1877 Manufacturer & Builder Oct. 232 (heading) Lead and mercury poisoning. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 881/1 The current can be passed into and out of the movable coil by permitting ends of the coil to dip into two mercury cups. 1955 Sci. News Let. 14 May 308/1 Mercury vapor inside the vacuum tube gives the glow as its atoms are excited by impinging electrons. 1990 Strad June 477/1 By 1828 Paganini had failing eyesight, deteriorating handwriting etc. as a result of ‘Hatter's Shakes’,—a form of mercury poisoning. < as lemmas |
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