Mercury

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Contents 1 Architecture 2 The Arts 2.1 Art 2.2 Books 2.3 Music 2.4 Media 2.5 Sports 2.6 Theater 2.7 Video 3 Food & drink 4 History 5 People 5.1 Groups 5.2 Fictional 6 Places 7 Science 7.1 Astronomy 7.2 Botany 7.3 Chemistry 8 Technology 8.1 Computer hardware, software and systems 8.2 Devices 8.3 Electrical 8.4 Optical 8.5 Space 8.6 Transportation 8.6.1 Air vehicles 8.6.2 Land vehicles 8.6.3 Water vehicles 9 Society 9.1 Business 10 See also

Mercury commonly refers to:

• Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun in the solar system
• Mercury (element), the chemical element (also called quicksilver)
• Mercury (mythology), a Roman god

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Mercury may also refer to:

[edit] Architecture

• Mercury City Tower, a Moscow, Russian skyscraper
• Mercury Court, a large office building in Liverpool, England

[edit] The Arts

[edit] Art

• Brig "Mercury" Attacked by Two Turkish Ships, an 1892 oil on canvas painting
• Mercury fountain, a 1930s sculpture designed by the American artist Alexander Calder
• Mercury House (London building), an office building in London, England

[edit] Books

• Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury, the fourth novel in the Lucky Starr series
• Marooned on Mercury, a Dan Dare comic story from 1952
• Mercury (novel), a novel by Ben Bova
• Mercury in fiction, a list of the uses of the planet Mercury in science fiction stories
• Mercury in the fiction of Leigh Brackett, a list of the uses of the planet Mercury in stories by Leigh Brackett
• Mission to Mercury, a science fiction novel published in the United Kingdom in 1965
• Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. the Mutant Mosquitos from Mercury, a children's book

[edit] Music

• "Mercury" (Kathleen Edwards song), the sixth track off Kathleen Edwards' debut album Failer
• "Mercury, the Winged Messenger", a movement in Gustav Holst's The Planets suite
• Daniela Mercury (album), 1991 album by Brazilian singer Daniela Mercury
• Daniela Mercury discography, discography of Brazilian singer Daniela Mercury
• Deadly Sting: The Mercury Years, compilation album by the German band Scorpions
• Freddie Mercury discography, discography of British singer Freddie Mercury
• Mercury (album), an album by Long-View
• Mercury (American Music Club album)
• Mercury (Madder Mortem album)
• "Mercury" (Counting Crows song), a song by Counting Crows from Recovering the Satellites
• Mercury Falling, the fifth studio album released by Sting
• Mercury4 (album), the 2004 debut album by Melbourne, Australia band Mercury4
• My Mercury Mouth EP, an album from The Chemical Brothers released in 1994
• Project Mercury (album), a split album from two American bands
• See You on the Other Side (Mercury Rev album), the third album by[Mercury Rev, released in 1995
• The Essential Mercury Rev: Stillness Breathes 1991-2006, a double disc compilation album by Mercury Rev
• The Freddie Mercury Album, a posthumous solo project with material from deceased vocalist Freddie Mercury
• Thin Mercury Sound, a 2004 album released by Caviar

[edit] Media

• 102.7 Mercury FM, a radio station in Surrey, United Kingdom
• Anna Mercury, a comic mini-series
• Clevedon Mercury, a weekly free newspaper in England
• Guelph Mercury, a Canadian newspaper
• Hertfordshire's Mercury 96.6, an independent local radio station in England
• Illawarra Mercury, a daily newspaper in Australia
• Leicester Mercury, a United Kingdom regional newspaper
• London Mercury, a list of periodicals named London Mercury published in London
• Maitland Mercury, Australia's oldest regional newspaper
• Matlock Mercury, a United Kingdom newspaper
• Medford Daily Mercury, an independent five-day newspaper in Massachusetts, United States
• Mercury (Israel magazine), a Hebrew language science fiction magazine in Israel
• Mercury (magazine), an astronomy magazine
• Mercury (Newport), a newspaper in Rhode Island
• Mercury (Pennsylvania), a newspaper in Pennsylvania, United States
• Mercury 96.6, a radio station in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
• Mercury News, a newspaper in San Jose, CA
• Quebec Mercury, a defunct 19th Century weekly newspaper published in Quebec City, Canada
• San Jose Mercury News, a daily newspaper in California, United States
• Sherborne Mercury, a defunct newspaper from Dorset United Kingdom
• St. Arnaud Mercury, a newspaper in Victoria, Australia
• Staffordshire Mercury, a newspaper that was published in Staffordshire, England
• Sunday Mercury, a newspaper in Birmingham, United Kingdom
• The American Mercury, a defunct American literary magazine
• The Mercury (Hobart), a newspaper in Hobart, Australia
• The Mercury (South Africa), a English language newspaper published in Durban, South Africa
• The Portland Mercury, an alternative weekly newspaper published in Oregon, United States
• The Somerset Mercury, a regional newspaper in Somerset, England
• The Weston & Somerset Mercury, a weekly paid for newspaper in Somerset, England

[edit] Sports

• 2008 Phoenix Mercury season, 12th WNBA season for the Phoenix Mercury

[edit] Theater

• Mercury Fur, a 2005 London, England premiered adult stage play by Philip Ridley
• Mercury Theatre, a theatre company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman
• Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists, a 17th century English renaissance play

[edit] Video

• Archer Maclean's Mercury, a video game for the PlayStation Portable
• Mercury Man (film), a 2006 superhero martial arts action film from Thailand
• Mercury Meltdown Revolution, a computer puzzle video game]
• Mercury Meltdown, a PlayStation Portable video game
• Mercury Pookkal, a Tamil language film
• Mercury Rising, a United States 1998 action thriller feature film
• Red Mercury (film), a 2005 United Kingdom film
• Shadow Ops: Red Mercury, a video game
• The Boy from Mercury, a 1996 Irish Film

[edit] Food & drink

• Mercury Cider, an alcoholic beverage produced by Cascade Brewery

[edit] History

• Operation Mercury, codename for the German invasion of Crete during World War II
• The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, a 1992 open-air concert held in London, England

[edit] People

• Adam Birch, a professional wrestler with the stage name Joey Mercury
• Daniela Mercury, Brazilian singer
• Freddie Mercury, singer of the rock group Queen
• Mercury Hayes, a former professional American football wide receiver born in 1973
• Mercury Morris, a former American football running back born in 1947

[edit] Groups

• Edmonton Mercurys, a 1940s and 50s intermediate ice hockey team from Canada
• Greetings From Mercury, a Belgian jazz fusion band
• List of Mercury Records artists, a list of acts that have recorded for recording company Mercury Records
• Mercury 13, a name for the 13 American women who underwent screening tests in the 1950s for [[Project Mercury
• Mercury Rev, an American rock music band formed in the late 1980s
• Mercury Seven, a group of seven Project Mercury NASA astronauts formed in 1959
• Mercury Tide, a German power metal band
• Mercury Tilt Switch, a rock band from Dundee, Scotland
• Mercury4, a Melbourne, Australia band
• Our Mercury, a Canadian indie rock band
• Owen Sound Mercurys, a defunct Canadian ice hockey team
• Phoenix Mercury, a Women's National Basketball Association team from Arizona, United States
• The Mercury Program, a United States musical group from Florida, United States
• Toledo Mercurys, a defunct International Hockey League franchise from Ohio, United States

[edit] Fictional

• Max Mercury, a DC Comics fictional superhero
• Mercury (Amalgam Comics), an Amalgam Comics character
• Mercury (comics), a list comic fictional characters named Mercury
• Mercury (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Mercury Man, a fictional superhero from Charlton Comics
• Mercurymon, a fictional character from the Digimon media franchise
• Mike Mercury, the chief test pilot of the Supercar team
• Sailor Mercury or Ami Mizuno, one of the Sailor Senshi from the anime/manga, Sailor Moon
• Mercury Ranger, one of the other Power Rangers
• Mercury, a member of the Metal Men, a DC comics team

[edit] Places

• Mercury Bay, a large V-shaped bay in New Zealand
• Mercury Boulevard, a road in Virginia, United States
• Mercury Islands, an island off the northeast coast of New Zealand
• Mercury, Nevada, United States
• Mercury, Savoie, a village in France

[edit] Science

• Inch of mercury, a measuring unit for pressure utilizing the element mercury

[edit] Astronomy

• Atmosphere of Mercury, atmosphere of the planet Mercury
• Boethius (crater on Mercury), a geological formation on the planet Mercury
• Geology of Mercury, rocks, soil, and other solid matter of the planet Mercury
• Kuiper (crater on Mercury), a geological formation on the planet Mercury
• List of albedo features on Mercury, a list large areas on the surface of the planet Mercury
• List of craters on Mercury, a list of landform openings in the planet Mercury
• List of geological features on Mercury, a list of mountains, valleys, and other landforms of the planet Mercury
• List of Mercury-crossing asteroids, a list of asteroids whose orbit crosses that of the planet Mercury
• List of quadrangles on Mercury, list of geographical quadrangles of the surface of the planet Mercury
• Mercury's moon, a moon orbiting the planet Mercury
• Schubert (crater on Mercury), a geological formation on the planet Mercury
• Sullivan (crater on Mercury), a geological formation on the planet Mercury
• Transit of Mercury from Jupiter, movement of the planet Mercury across the Sun as seen from the planet Jupiter
• Transit of Mercury from Mars, movement of the planet Mercury across the Sun as seen from the planet Mars
• Transit of Mercury from Saturn, movement of the planet Mercury across the Sun as seen from the planet Saturn
• Transit of Mercury from Uranus, movement of the planet Mercury across the Sun as seen from the planet Uranus
• Transit of Mercury from Venus, movement of the planet Mercury across the Sun as seen from the planet Venus
• Transit of Mercury, movement of the planet Mercury across the Sun as seen from Earth

[edit] Botany

• Dog's Mercury, a spring flower found in Europe
• Mercury (plant), members of the plant genus Mercurialis

[edit] Chemistry

Specific compounds of Mercury are listed in Category:Mercury compounds.

• Isotopes of mercury, different forms of the element mercury
• Mercury beating heart, an electro chemical reaction of the element mercury to iron and an electrolyte
• Mercury poisoning, a disease caused by exposure to the element mercury or its toxic compounds
• Mercury(II) reductase, or mercuric reductase, an enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of mercury
• Red mercury, a substance of debatable existence purportedly used in weapons systems

[edit] Technology

[edit] Computer hardware, software and systems

• Ferranti Mercury, an early 1950s commercial computer
• Mercury (computer), developed in the early 1950s by Ferranti and the University of Manchester computing department
• Mercury (programming language), a functional/logical programming language based on Prolog
• Mercury Autocode, a high-level language run by the Ferranti/Manchester computer
• Mercury Mail Transport System, email server
• Mercury memory, kind of delay line memory, in use in the 1950s
• Mercury Messenger (formerly called dMSN) is an MSN based Instant Messaging client developed under Java
• Mercury OS, a real-time operating system for embedded systems
• MercuryBoard, a bulletin board software system

[edit] Devices

• Mercury (cipher machine), a British cipher machine used from the 1950s
• Mercury vacuum, a vacuum cleaner specifically designed to collect spills and vapors of the element mercury
• Mercury vapour turbine, a rotary engine to produce electricity from mercury vapor
• Mercury-in-glass thermometer, a thermometer having the element of mercury in a glass tube

[edit] Electrical

• Mercury arc valve, a rectifier device intended for high electrical voltages/currents
• Mercury battery, an electrochemical battery
• Mercury coulometer, an electro analytical chemistry device that determines the amount of matter transformed during a mercury reaction
• Mercury probe, an electrical probing device to sample for electrical characterization
• Mercury switch, a electrical circuit, on-off switch using the element mercury
• Mercury swivel commutator, a electrical circuit, current-reversing switch using the element mercury
• Mercury-vapor lamp, a gas discharge lamp that uses the element mercury in an excited state to produce light

[edit] Optical

• Mercury glass, a variety of reflective products having the element mercury sandwiched between two glass panes
• Mercury laser, a high-average-power laser system using the element mercury
• Mercury mirror, a parabolic shape telescope dish having a layer of reflective mercury
• Mercury silvering, a technique to apply a thin layer of a precious metal to a base metal object

[edit] Space

• Colonization of Mercury, efforts to colonize the planet Mercury
• Exploration of Mercury, efforts to explore the planet Mercury
• Mercury (satellite), the name of a series of three United States satellites launched in the 1990s
• Project Mercury, an early American program for launching humans into space. Specific subprojects included:
  • Mercury-Atlas
  • Mercury-Jupiter
  • Mercury-Redstone
  • Mercury-Scout

[edit] Transportation

[edit] Air vehicles

• Bristol Mercury, a 9-cylinder aircraft engine
• Blackburn Mercury, British aircraft from 1911
• E-6 Mercury, a United States military aircraft
• Miles Mercury, a British aircraft designed during the Second World War
• Short S.20 Mercury, a piggyback long-range seaplane/flying boat combination

[edit] Land vehicles

• Mercury (automobile), a marque of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company
• Mercury (cyclecar), a United States cyclecar from 1914

[edit] Water vehicles

• HMS Mercury or HMS Mercure, the name of several ships of the Royal Navy
• MV Celebrity Mercury, a cruise ship built in 1997
• USS Mercury, the name of several ships of the United States Navy

[edit] Society

• Got Mercury?, a United States public awareness campaign about levels of the element mercury in seafood
• HMS Mercury (shore establishment), a Royal Navy military school
• Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, a United Kingdom comedian award
• Mercury dime, a coin preceding the current dime in the United States
• Mercury Prize, an annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom
• Mercury-containing and Rechargeable Battery Management Act, a 1996 United States law to phase out the use of mercury in batteries
• Red Mercury, an Austrian postage stamp for the mailing of newspapers
• The Mercury Award, an international airline award for in-flight catering

[edit] Business

• Conrail Mercury, an intermodal service formerly operated by Conrail
• Debmar-Mercury, a Canadian television syndication company
• Lincoln-Mercury, an automobile division the Ford Motor Company
• Mercury Brewing Company, a Massachusetts, United States beverage production company
• Mercury Communications, a now-defunct British telecommunications company
• Mercury Computer Systems, an embedded digital signal and image processing solutions provider
• Mercury Drug, a Philippine drug store chain
• Mercury Energy, an energy company in New Zealand
• Mercury Games, a London-based computer and video games publisher
• Mercury House (publishers), a trade book publishing company based in San Francisco, California, United States
• Mercury Insurance Group, an American automobile and property insurance company
• Mercury Interactive, a software and consulting company (subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard)
• Mercury Lounge, a music venue in New York City
• Mercury Marine, a manufacturer of marine engines and propulsion systems
• Mercury Policy Project, an organization that works to promote policies to control the distribution of the element mercury
• Mercury Records Australia, a record label launched in Australia in 2007
• Mercury Records, a record label
• MercurySteam, a game software development company based in Madrid, Spain
• Red Mercury LLC, a video game company founded in 1999 in Chicago, Illinois
• The Mercury Phoenix Trust, a charity organization that fights AIDS worldwide
• Mercury, the callsign for Shuttle America Airlines

[edit] See also

• Mercurius (disambiguation)
• Mercury 1 (disambiguation)
• Mercury 2 (disambiguation)
• Mercury 3 (disambiguation)
• Mercury 4 (disambiguation)
• Mercury chloride (disambiguation)
• Mercury House (disambiguation)
• Mercury program (disambiguation)
• Red mercury (disambiguation)
• The Mercury (disambiguation)