(urth) Fuligin?

[Marc Aramini]

Would temp change the balance though? If mercury expanded or contracted.

On Wednesday, July 16, 2014, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:

> Mercury has a very low freezing point and a very high boiling point. Hard
> to imagine temperature being a problem!
>
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>   On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 2:34 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','marcaramini at gmail.com');>> wrote:
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> I have to thematically disagree with that assessment, Jeffery.  The
> astronaut is called a knight, the Latin is mistranslated ... New things get
> old names, but sometimes old things get new or even older names.  Could
> very easily be Mercury.  Would the loft of his blade be greatly affected by
> temperatures?  Warm or cold weather blade?
>
> On Wednesday, July 16, 2014, Jeffery Wilson clueland.com <
> jwilson at clueland.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jwilson at clueland.com');>> wrote:
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> On 7/16/2014 10:56 AM, DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote:
>
> Perhaps, but you certainly wouldn't expect him to call it "mercury." Way
> too many conflicting associations there.
>
>
> Whatever word the Commonwealth's tongue had for it, if that was used and
> it was apparent from context that it was something we know today, mercury,
> G.W. would've writ the word we use, "mercury", like he does with all the
> other words where that is the case.
>
>
> > And I doubt there would be a
>
> common term for it anyway---who would have it sitting around the house?
>
>
> People whose homes contain Emerald Tablets and homunculi, and other 20th
> century electrical conveniences like electric eyes and metal detectors, or
> whose homes are rocketships crammed full of eternally repaired ancient gear
> that might include mercury switches, mercury balances, mercury bearings, et
> cetera.  Autarch Severian is both, and then some.
>
>
> --
> Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
> A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
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> >
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