methyl mercury

[meth-uhl-mur-kyuh-ree]

meth·yl·mer·cu·ry

[meth-uhl-mur-kyuh-ree]
noun Chemistry.
any of several extremely toxic organometallic compounds, Hg(CH3)2, formed from metallic mercury by the action of microorganisms and capable of entering the food chain: used as seed disinfectants.

Origin:
1915–20; methyl + mercury
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Methyl mercury is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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