Mercury
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Mercury usually refers to:
- Mercury (element), a metallic chemical element with the symbol 'Hg'
- Mercury (mythology), a Roman god
- Mercury (planet), the first planet from the Sun
Mercury may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Characters
- Mercury (Marvel Comics), a character who can turn herself into a mercurial substance
- Makkari (comics) or Mercury, an Eternal, a Marvel comics race of superhumans
- A member of the Metal Men, a DC comics team
- A member of Cerebro's X-Men
- Mercury, an Amalgam Comics character
- Mercury Black, a character in the RWBY web series
Literature
- Mercury (2005 novel), by Ben Bova
- Mercury (2016 novel), by Margot Livesey
- Mercury (magazine), an astronomy magazine
- Mercury (newspaper), a common name for an English-language newspaper
- A novel by Anna Kavan
Music
Albums
Songs
- "Mercury" (song), 2008, by Bloc Party
- A song by Kathleen Edwards from Failer
- A song by Counting Crows from Recovering the Satellites
- A song by Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly and James McAlister from Planetarium
Other uses in music
- Mercury Records, a record label
- Mercury Prize, an annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom
- "Mercury, the Winged Messenger", a movement in Gustav Holst's The Planets
Other media
- Mercury (film), a 2018 Indian silent horror thriller by Karthik Subbaraj
- Mercury (TV series), from Australia
- Mercury FM, a radio station in Surrey, United Kingdom
- Mercury 96.6, present-day Heart Hertfordshire, a radio station in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
- Archer Maclean's Mercury, a 2005 PlayStation Portable video game
- A fictional Minnesota town in the 2011 film Young Adult
Companies
- Mercury Communications, a British telecommunications firm set up in the 1980s
- Mercury Drug, a Philippine pharmacy chain
- Mercury Energy, an electricity generation and retail company in New Zealand
- Mercury Insurance Group, a multiple-line American insurance organization
- The Mercury Mall, a shopping centre in Romford, England
- Mercury Marine, a major manufacturer of marine engines, particularly outboard motors
- Shuttle America, a regional airline (callsign "Mercury")
People
- Mercury (name), (includes a list of people with that surname or given name)
- Daniela Mercury (born 1965), Brazilian singer, songwriter and record producer
- Freddie Mercury (1946–1991), frontman for the rock group Queen
- Mercury Morris (born 1947), former American football player
Places
- Mercury, Nevada, a closed city within the Nevada Test Site, United States
- Mercury, Savoie, a commune in southeastern France
- Mercury, Texas
- Mercury Bay, New Zealand
- Mercury Boulevard in Virginia, United States
- A town in Alabama; see List of places in Alabama
Science and technology
Biology
- Annual mercury (Mercurialis annua) a species of flowering plant
- Blitum bonus-henricus, a species of goosefoot known by the common names English mercury or mercury goosefoot, among other names
Computing
- Mercury (programming language), a functional logic programming language
- Ferranti Mercury, an early 1950s commercial computer
- Mercury Interactive, a software testing tools vendor
- Mercury Systems, a defense-related information technology company
- Mercury Mail Transport System, an email server
- Mercury Browser, a freeware mobile browser
Other uses in science and technology
- Mercury (cipher machine), a 1950s British cipher machine used by the Air Ministry
- Mercury (plant), members of the plant genus Mercurialis
- Mercury (satellite), a series of three American spy satellites launched in the 1990s
- Project Mercury, the first United States human spaceflight program
Sports
- Edmonton Mercurys, a 1940s and 1950s intermediate ice hockey team from Canada
- Fujita Soccer Club Mercury, a Japanese women's football team active from 1989 to 1999
- Memphis Mercury, American women's soccer team
- Phoenix Mercury, a Women's National Basketball Association team from Arizona, United States
- Toledo Mercurys, a defunct International Hockey League franchise from Ohio, United States
Vehicles
Air
- Blackburn Mercury, a British aircraft from 1911
- Boeing E-6 Mercury, an American aircraft used as an airborne command post and communications relay
- Bristol Mercury, a nine-cylinder aircraft engine
- Miles Mercury, a British aircraft designed during the Second World War
Land
- Mercury (automobile), produced by the Ford Motor Company from 1938 to 2011
- Mercury (cyclecar), an American cyclecar from 1914
- Mercury (train), a family of New York Central streamliner passenger trains (1936–1958)
Sea
- HMS Mercury, any of several ships of the Royal Navy
- USS Mercury, any of several ships of the United States Navy
- Russian brig Mercury, an 1820 warship
Other uses
- Mercury (pigeon), a bird honoured for bravery during World War II
- Mercury (toy manufacturer), a brand of diecast toy cars manufactured in Italy
- Operation Mercury, codename for the German invasion of Crete during World War II
See also
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- Mercur (disambiguation)
- Mercure (disambiguation)
- Mercurio (disambiguation)
- Mercurius (disambiguation)
- Mercury 1 (disambiguation)
- Mercury 2 (disambiguation)
- Mercury 3 (disambiguation)
- Mercury 4 (disambiguation)
- Mercury 7 (disambiguation)
- Mercury City (disambiguation)
- Mercury FM (disambiguation)
- Mercury House (disambiguation)
- Mercury mission (disambiguation)
- Mercury program (disambiguation)
- Mercury project (disambiguation)
- Mercury VIII (disambiguation)
- Merkur (disambiguation)
- Hg (disambiguation)
- Isotopes of mercury, with 202Hg being the most abundant (29.86%)
- All pages beginning with Mercury
- All pages with a title containing Mercury
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