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Mercury poisoning
Mercury poisoning, also called mercurialism or Minamata disease in its outbreak form, is toxicity from elemental, inorganic, or organic mercury, chiefly methylmercury in fish and mercury vapor at work, damaging the nervous system and kidneys.
Mercury Prize
Mercury Prize: annual UK and Irish album of the year award founded in 1992, judged by an independent panel from 12 shortlisted albums across all genres, with a £25,000 prize; run by the BPI since 2015.
Mercury Records
Mercury Records, American record label founded 1945 in Chicago by Irving Green, Berle Adams, and Arthur Talmadge; known for Living Presence classical recordings, later owned by Philips, PolyGram, and UMG, relaunched in 2022 under Republic Records.
Mercury Rev
Mercury Rev, American psychedelic rock band formed 1989 in Buffalo, New York, led by Jonathan Donahue and Grasshopper; debut Yerself Is Steam (1991), breakthrough Deserter's Songs (1998), latest album Born Horses (2024).
Mercury Rising
Mercury Rising is a 1998 American action thriller directed by Harold Becker, starring Bruce Willis as an FBI agent protecting an autistic boy hunted by the NSA.
Mercury Sable
The Mercury Sable was a sedan and station wagon sold by Ford's Mercury division from 1986 through 2009 as a more upscale sister car to the Ford Taurus.
Mercury Seven
Mercury Seven: the seven US military test pilots (Shepard, Grissom, Glenn, Carpenter, Schirra, Slayton, Cooper) selected by NASA in April 1959 as America's first astronauts for Project Mercury.
Mercury sulfide
Mercury sulfide is the inorganic compound HgS, occurring in nature as the red mineral cinnabar and the black metacinnabar, and long used as the pigment vermilion.
Mercury Tracer
The Mercury Tracer was a compact car sold by Ford's Mercury division from 1988 through the 1999 model year, spanning three generations that were all built on Mazda-derived platforms.
Mercury Villager
The Mercury Villager was a front-wheel-drive minivan sold by Ford's Mercury division from 1993 through 2002, developed with Nissan and sold alongside its mechanical twin, the Nissan Quest.
Mercury-Atlas 6
Mercury-Atlas 6, the MA-6 mission, was the first United States crewed orbital spaceflight, launched February 20, 1962, carrying John Glenn around Earth three times in Friendship 7.
Mercury-Atlas 8
Mercury-Atlas 8, also called Sigma 7, was the third crewed orbital Mercury flight; Wally Schirra completed six orbits on October 3, 1962, then the longest American spaceflight.
Mercury-Atlas 9
Mercury-Atlas 9, also known as Mercury 9 and flown as Faith 7, was the final crewed mission of Project Mercury, with Gordon Cooper completing 22.5 orbits in May 1963.
Mercury-in-glass thermometer
A mercury-in-glass thermometer, also known as a mercury thermometer, measures temperature through mercury expanding in a graduated glass tube; it was developed by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.
Mercury-Redstone 1
Mercury-Redstone 1 was the first attempt to launch a Mercury spacecraft on a Redstone rocket, an unmanned November 21, 1960 attempt at Cape Canaveral whose engine shut down just after ignition.
Mercury-Redstone 3
Mercury-Redstone 3, also known as Freedom 7, was the first United States human spaceflight, launched May 5, 1961, carrying Alan Shepard on a 15-minute suborbital flight.
Mercury-Redstone 4
Mercury-Redstone 4, known as Liberty Bell 7, was the second and final crewed Project Mercury suborbital flight, launched July 21, 1961, carrying Gus Grissom; the capsule sank after splashdown but was recovered in 1999.
Mercury-vapor lamp
A mercury-vapor lamp is a high-intensity discharge lamp that makes bluish-white light by passing an electric arc through vaporized mercury, used for street lighting since 1901.
Mercury's magnetic field
Mercury's magnetic field is a global dynamo field generated in Mercury's liquid iron core, about 1% as strong as Earth's, making Mercury the only other inner planet with one.
Mercury(II) chloride
Mercury(II) chloride, historically known as corrosive sublimate, is a highly toxic white crystalline mercury compound, once an antiseptic and now mainly a catalyst in vinyl chloride production for PVC.
Mercury(II) fulminate
Mercury(II) fulminate, or fulminate of mercury, is a gray-white crystalline primary explosive that detonates from a sharp blow and was long the standard charge in percussion and blasting caps.
Mercury(II) iodide
Mercury(II) iodide, or mercuric iodide (HgI2), is a scarlet-red, water-insoluble, poisonous mercury salt and wide-band-gap semiconductor best known for room-temperature X-ray and gamma-ray detectors since the early 1970s.
Mercutio
Mercutio, kinsman of Prince Escalus and Romeo's witty friend in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595-1596), delivers the Queen Mab speech, is killed by Tybalt in Act 3, and barely exists in Brooke's 1562 source poem.
Mercy
Mercy: compassionate forbearance or relief toward someone within one's power to punish or abandon, expressed through the works of mercy, zakat, clemency, and organizations from the Misericordie (1244) to the Sisters of Mercy and modern humanitarian agencies.
Mercy (2025 film)
Mercy (2025 film) is an American sci-fi thriller directed by Timur Bekmambetov, starring Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson, released January 23, 2026 by Amazon MGM; a detective has 90 minutes to prove innocence to an AI judge. Distinct from the 2026 Hindi film Mercy.
Mercy (2026 film)
Mercy is a 2026 American science-fiction thriller directed by Timur Bekmambetov, starring Chris Pratt as a detective who has 90 minutes to prove his innocence to an AI judge.
Mercy (Armand Hammer and the Alchemist album)
Mercy (2025) is the second collaborative album by New York rap duo Armand Hammer (billy woods, Elucid) and producer The Alchemist, released November 7, 2025 on Backwoodz Studioz; 14 tracks, 41 minutes, guests include Earl Sweatshirt, following 2021's Haram.
Mercy Brown vampire incident
Mercy Lena Brown (1872-1892) of Exeter, Rhode Island, whose exhumation on March 17, 1892, heart-burning, and ash tonic for her brother Edwin made the best-documented case of the New England vampire panic.
Mercy Cherono
Mercy Cherono (Mercy Cherono Koech), Kenyan long-distance runner born 1991: 2013 World 5000m silver, 2014 Commonwealth 5000m gold, fourth at Rio 2016, Kenyan two-mile record 9:11.49.
Mercy Chinwo
Mercy Chinwo (Mercy Nnenda Chinwo, Mercy Chinwo Blessed), born 1990 in Port Harcourt, is a Nigerian gospel singer-songwriter and actress who won Nigerian Idol Season 2 in 2012 and is known for "Excess Love" and the albums The Cross: My Gaze, SATISFIED, and Overwhelming Victory.