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English
Etymology
From Latin hydrargyrum (“mercury”) + -iferous.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /haɪˈdɹɑː(ɹ)d͡ʒɪɹˈɪfəɹəs/
Adjective
hydrargyriferous (comparative more hydrargyriferous, superlative most hydrargyriferous)
- Bearing or producing mercury
1851, Johann Georg Heck, Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art, page 146:... antimonial silver accompanied by arsenic and galena; the hydrargyriferous with native mercury and cinnabar; the cupriferous with copper oxydes ...
1546, Georgius Agricola, De Natura Fossilium:Certain minerals can be compressed such as native spodos and a black mineral similar to the down of plants and which is sometimes argentiferous, sometimes hydrargyriferous (metacinnabarite).