Mercury used to be called quicksilver, and also hydrargyrum, meaning watery or liquid silver, which is where it gets its chemical symbol Hg from.
Hydrargyrum, hence it's symbol Hg.
Answer: Hermes (Anc. Greek).
This is mercury, Hg. The chemical symbol reflects the old greek name which means silver water. Quite a pretty name I think.
mercury is a metal. It is liquid at room temperature.
Mercury and Gallium comes very close also.
You might be thinking of 'quicksilver'.
Mercury is a liquid metal.
Planet Mercury and the metal mercury share a name.
This is mercury, Hg. The chemical symbol reflects the old greek name which means silver water. Quite a pretty name I think.
The name of the Roman god Mercury is Mercury (!). His name has been given to a metal and a planet. His Greek equivalent was Hermes.
metal---- mercury non metal-----bromine
transition metal
Mercury
mercury is a metal. It is liquid at room temperature.
The liquid metal "mercury" (also known as quicksilver) is not connected with the planet of the same name. The metal is refined on Earth from the mineral "cinnabar" (mercury sulfide).
mercury
The old name for Merury is hydrargyrum from hydr- meaning water and argyros meaning silver. Mercury is a liquid silvery metal and was, in fact, known as quicksilver. Anyway, the chemical symbol comes from hydrargyrum.
Mercury
Mercury the liquid metal is also known as quicksilver