mercurification

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English

Etymology

Compare French mercurification. See mercurify.

Noun

mercurification (uncountable)

  1. The process or operation of obtaining the mercury, in its fluid form, from mercuric minerals.
  2. (chemistry) The act or process of compounding, or the state of being compounded, with mercury.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mercurification”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)