hydrargyriferous

comparative more hydrargyriferous · superlative most hydrargyriferous

1. Bearing or producing mercury

   ... antimonial silver accompanied by arsenic and galena; the hydrargyriferous with native mercury and cinnabar; the cupriferous with copper oxydes ...

   1851, Johann Georg Heck, Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art, page 146

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   Certain minerals can be compressed such as native spodos and a black mineral similar to the down of plants and which is sometimes argentiferous, sometimes hydrargyriferous (metacinnabarite).

   1546, Georgius Agricola, De Natura Fossilium