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Webster 1913 Edition

Mercurify

Mer-cu′ri-fy

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Mercurified
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Mercurifying
.]
[
Mercury
+
-fy
.]
1.
To obtain mercury from, as mercuric minerals, which may be done by any application of intense heat that expels the mercury in fumes, which are afterward condensed.
[R.]
2.
To combine or mingle mercury with; to impregnate with mercury; to mercurialize.
[R.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Mercurify

MERCU'RIFY

,
Verb.
T.
To obtain mercury from metallic minerals, which it is said may be done by a large lens, the intense heat of which expels the mercury in fumes, which are afterwards condensed.

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