Sentence examples for mercury instead of from inspiring English sources

He gained particular renown for an improved pneumatic trough in which, by collecting gases over mercury instead of in water, he was able to isolate and examine gases that were soluble in water.

Zanzibar is a semiautonomous island off Tanzania, where the street sellers are in the business of pushing Freddie Mercury instead of crack.

Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous island off Tanzania, where the street sellers are in the business of pushing Freddie Mercury instead of crack.

Su Song was also strongly influenced by the earlier armillary sphere created by Zhang Sixun (976 AD), who also employed the escapement mechanism and used liquid mercury instead of water in the waterwheel of his astronomical clock tower (since liquid mercury would not freeze during winter and would not corrode and rust metal components over time).

The change meant scrapping a flight plan that involved no Earth flyby, three trips around Venus instead of two and two passes past Mercury instead of three that would have put the craft in orbit in July 2009 instead of March 2011.

You want?" He pushed the goods closer to my face so that I could properly appreciate them; stacks of counterfeit Queen CDs with the moustachioed face of Freddie Mercury staring back at me. "Tambourine too, Miss?" Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous island off Tanzania, where apparently the street sellers are in the business of pushing Freddie Mercury instead of crack.

An interesting application, though not of great commercial significance, is the use of mercury vapour instead of steam in some electrical generating plants, the higher boiling point of mercury providing greater efficiency in the heat cycle.

Two alternative spinning disk designs use xenon or mercury arc lamps instead of laser light for excitation.

Some cleanup firms use nitric acid or an Hg removal solvent instead of a mercury spill kit.

Ethical jewellers in Scotland such as Vivien Johnston of fifibijoux.com are excited because, although there's no such thing as a zero-impact mine, this represents an unbelievably short supply chain, creates local jobs and uses gravity and flotation to recover the gold instead of mercury or cyanide.

Most thermometers now use pigmented alcohol instead of mercury, and galinstan alloy thermometers are also an option.