Sentence examples for mercury shot from inspiring English sources

1961 Mercury Shot Put Off Again The second United States man-in-space shot was postponed today [July 19] for the second time because of weather.

The mercury shot up past 70 degrees Tuesday (21.2 Celsius) in southwest London's Kew Gardens, breaking the record for the United Kingdom's hottest temperature in February or any winter month (December through February), set just the day before.

The mercury shot up above eighty, and all across the city long-dormant stenches began to stir, reminding New Yorkers that it will soon be time to employ their preferred odor-avoidance techniques: nose-holding, mouth-breathing, the strategic sniffing of a packet of mints.

So as journalists were invited to the Science Media Centre in London to hear how the worldwide rise in temperatures has stalled, the mercury shot up as if on cue to record the hottest day of the year so far.

Then, just this week, the mercury shot up.

Like a crossbow bolt of liquid mercury shot straight through my brain.

His mission, in his Faith 7 capsule, from May 15 to 16 in 1963, covered 34 hours, 20 minutes, more than all five of the previous Mercury shots combined.

My son and many other children had the misfortune of being inoculated before the "precautionary elimination" of mercury in the shots.

The flu shot contains mercury!" variety.

Why is staring at a small screen for hours playing a game involving colourful dancing mushrooms (for example) a danger tantamount to downing shots of mercury, but staring for hours at a teacher trying to convey the difference between a subordinating conjunction and a preposition is perfectly harmless?

Orthodox scientists and medical groups have dismissed and even ridiculed the idea that incredibly toxic ethyl mercury -- still in flu shots given to infants and pregnant women -- could be linked to the explosion in autism rates beginning in the 1990s, when the vaccine schedule was rapidly expanded.