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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Lighting is by two Floraset mercury vapour lamps which were originally set on a timer to give 11 hours of light.
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The mercury hovered around ninety, and so did the humidity.
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The mercury method, so popular in the Roman period for gilding, can also be used for silvering bronze and brass.
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The final stage of circuit board construction is to insert the integrated circuit IC1 with the identification notch next to the mercury switch.
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The monostable is an edge-triggered device which resets the timer every time the mercury rolls on to the switch contacts.
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The restaurant is amply air-conditioned, since the mercury often creeps north in South Bay.
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The silvery substance clung to his skin, looking like tiny beads of mercury , as slippery as graphite between his fingers.
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They calculate severe leaching of such toxic metals as beryllium, aluminum, mercury , lead, and cadmium.