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mercurial phosphorus

noun

Definitions

  1. a glow produced by friction when mercury is shaken in an evacuated glass vessel

    a glow produced by friction when mercury is shaken in an evacuated glass vessel; the luminous barometer

  2. a compound of mercury and phosphorus used to treat syphilis

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mercurial phosphorus. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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