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Mer′cu-ry-gath′er-er.


Metallurgy.) A stirring apparatus in which floured quicksilver, which has been rendered what is technically known as sick, is gathered together. See amalgam.

Quicksilver-Gatherer.

Mercury which is floured is in a sort of powdery condition, the particles being coated with sulphur from the pyrites or from other cause; and the object [1421] of the mechanical agitation and rubbing, in the mercury-gatherer, is to cause the globules of mercury to coalesce and resume the fluid condition.

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