"mercury" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to a metallic chemical element or a planet, or as a proper noun to refer to the Roman messenger god. Example sentence: Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun.
But the weather will dramatically improve in the second half of the week and the mercury is predicted to rise to 28C (82F) in the south on Friday and Saturday as warm air from the continent drifts over Britain.
The record-setting temperatures (it had never been warmer in Colorado) that fueled those blazes drifted east across the continent as the week wore on: across the Plains, there were places where the mercury reached levels it hadn't touched even in the Dust Bowl years, America's previous all-time highs.
In a matter of months, their dredgers and mercury kits can convert vast tracts of green forest into something resembling lunar wastelands.
Potentially harmful levels of metals, including lead, mercury and arsenic, have been found in up to a fifth of Ayuverdic products bought online.
While some may long for the muted sensory world of winter – the hushed din and dulled scents of a blanketed metropolis – the city's signature, ebullient blaring tends to correlate with a welcome uptick in the mercury, summer street garbage be damned.
On the political side, I wish the media would note the obvious parallels of the carbon debate with past ones over restricting pollutants (mercury, lead, asbestos, CFCs), where claims that restrictions would be economically catastrophic never came true.
If anyone wants to gauge the atmosphere between the two communities in the north of Ireland, despite relative peace and power sharing, they should come to Castlederg and check the social mercury levels.
The recent revelation of extremely high levels of contaminants such as mercury, cadmium and PCBs in dolphin meat has led some Japanese officials, concerned for the health of the citizenry, to an examination of the policy of eating cetaceans".
Notable Mercury-friendly accolades: His former band Portico Quartet were nominated for the prize back in 2008.
Such wholesale cross-fertilisation of musical conventions owes a lot to new technology, according to Jeremy Pritchard, bass player and co-writer with Mercury-nominated alternative rock band Everything Everything.
Notable Mercury-friendly accolades: A lot of time and attention was paid to Jungle's interesting aesthetic – and there was a sense of genuine excitement surrounding The Heat, a transfixing video which stars skating duo High Rollaz.
