It was named for the God, Mercury (the messenger of the gods) because its short rotation around the sun made it appear to travel fast across the sky.
YESi believe it is because high mercury content in anything will lead to death, cancer, or other serious disease's ... SO if you have water with high mercury content DONT DRINK IT!!
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Basa fish is supposed to have an extremely low mercury content. It therefore is a food which meetts doctor approval for pregnancy meal-planning.
Mercury is named for hermes, Mercury is hermes roman name
the planet Mercury is named after the god... Mercury!
The planet Mercury was named after the fast-footed Roman messenger of the gods, Mercury.
Mercury is not named after Apollo; it is actually named after the Roman god of mythology Mercury, who was the messenger of the gods. In Greek mythology, Mercury was known as Hermes.
Mercury was named after Hermes, the Roman god of travel.
Yes, the planet Mercury was named after the god Mercury. Mercury's other names are Thoth and Hermes (pronounced Her-meez).it wasn't named after a god it was named after a messenger when he found the planet in the sky so he named it mercury.
mercury was named by the Romans after a messenger god.
the extreme heat of the planet causes it to have a high rock content and so the surface looks rocky