<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Yes, this is definitely a case of deploying an exotic-sounding but technically precise term for an ordinary substance.<br></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 9:59 AM, Mo Holkar <mo@holkar.net> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">Hydrargyrum is the Latinized
Greek name for mercury, hence its <br clear="none">chemical symbol Hg. The 'gyr' is just part of 'argyros', Greek for silver.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">My understanding is that everything described about this liquid in <br clear="none">the text is satisfied by mercury, so there seems no reason to <br clear="none">consider it to be anything different.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">It's not the same (it seems to me) as where he calls a riding beast <br clear="none">by the name of a prehistoric animal and so we must understand it's <br clear="none">not that animal and nor is it a horse. Hydrargyrum is not an ancient <br clear="none">substance predecessor to mercury; it's an archaic name for precisely <br clear="none">contemporary mercury.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Mo<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">At 14:37 16/07/2014, you wrote:<br clear="none">>"Spinning liquid
silver"?<br clear="none">><br clear="none">>On 7/15/2014 11:50 AM, Jeffery Wilson clueland.com wrote:<br clear="none">> > On 7/15/2014 9:01 AM, Mo Holkar wrote:<br clear="none">> >> Just mercury, isn't it?<br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> > The translator G.W. transcribes it as "hydrargyrum", but it could be<br clear="none">> > something more exotic.<br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">><br clear="none">>_______________________________________________<br clear="none">>Urth Mailing List<br clear="none">>To post, write <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:urth@urth.net" href="mailto:urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</a><br clear="none">>Subscription/information: <a shape="rect" href="http://www.urth.net/" target="_blank">http://www.urth.net</a><div class="yqt2622164225" id="yqtfd35424"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br
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