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Mercury (Planet)
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Mercury forms monovalent and divalent compounds. Among the commercially important compounds of mercury are mercuric sulfide, a common antiseptic ... used as the pigment vermilion; mercurous chloride, or calomel, used for electrodes, and formerly used as a cathartic; mercuric chloride, or corrosive sublimate; and organic compounds used as disinfectants, germicides, and antiseptics, known as mercurials.
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Some people really get off on Mercury retrogrades when they happen; have a party! Some other people are waking, talking, breathing Mercury retrogrades, and fry computers by typing at them, or are surrounded by delays as a natural experience of being alive; these people don't even notice that anything is different.
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Despite the Roman indifference to providing Mercury with a native name, modern commentators favour two choices. One is Lugos/Lugus, a name found in inscriptions and implicit in the Roman town name of Lug(u)dunum, the root of such modern sites as Lyon, Laon, Loudon, Leiden, Léon, and Liegnitz. Lugos ... links Mercury more firmly with Lug Lámfhota, Lleu Llaw Gyffes, and the festival of Lughnasa. A second possibility is Erriapus, a deity of southern Gaul.
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