Use quicksilver in a sentence
Sentences starting with quicksilver
- Quicksilver is very costly, and they never waste it. [5]
Sentences ending with quicksilver
- Most of us wish to be good, but we are quicksilver. [11]
- Quantities of coarse salt and sulphate of copper were added, from time to time to assist the amalgamation by destroying base metals which coated the gold and silver and would not let it unite with the quicksilver. [5]
- It had never entered the head of Henry to rob the man--his ingot had been subjected to clean steam only; but George's had been subjected to vaporized quicksilver. [5]
- He, on the contrary, had to be watched and tended, for his veins seemed to run quicksilver. [10]
Sentences containing quicksilver two or more times
- The quicksilver turned to vapor, escaped through the pipe into the pail, and the water turned it into good wholesome quicksilver again. [5]
More example sentences with the word quicksilver in them
- Suppose we add to the steam some quicksilver in a vaporized condition, and turn the jet upon the ingot, will there be an instantaneous result? [5]
- I took out the plug and shook out the little dab of quicksilver, and set my teeth in. [5]
- In the morning the lake lay like a quicksilver pool under the rising mists, through which the sun struck blinding flashes of light. [9]
- Yes, and they take loaves of bread and put quicksilver in 'em and set 'em afloat, and wherever there's anybody that's drownded, they'll float right there and stop. [5]
- She is a shining drop of quicksilver which you put your finger on and it isn't there. [5]
- The sun was shining clear and strong, all the plains glistened and shook like quicksilver, and the vast blue cup of sky seemed deeper than it had ever been. [11]
- We put our pile of quicksilver balls into an iron retort that had a pipe leading from it to a pail of water, and then applied a roasting heat. [5]
- To me, the others are miners working with the gold-pan--of necessity some of the gold washes over and escapes; whereas, in my fancy, he is quicksilver raiding down a riffle--no grain of the metal stands much chance of eluding him. [5]
- By the end of ten or twenty minutes--ten or twenty years--the little ingot is sodden with quicksilver, its virtues are gone, its character is degraded. [5]
- Well, then I happened to think how they always put quicksilver in loaves of bread and float them off, because they always go right to the drownded carcass and stop there. [5]
- Making these snow-balls cost me a fine gold ring--that and ignorance together; for the quicksilver invaded the ring with the same facility with which water saturates a sponge--separated its particles and the ring crumbled to pieces. [5]
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