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quicksilver is Mercury. the same thing that is in old thermometers. they used to use it for Photography and making hats. it is highly poisonous.

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"Quick" was once a synonym for "living", surviving in the religious phrase "the quick and the dead". Mercury was also the Classical messenger of the gods, so swift, an allusion to the free-running nature of the metal. It was also used in barometers.

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