Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mercuriation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mer-cu-ri-a-tion
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any reaction that introduces a covalent mercury bond into a compound

Example Sentences

"Hiratuka has investigated the mercuriation of aryl arsenicals by mercuric acetate."
"Mercuriation of nucleic acids is performed after ISH is completed using haptens with SH groups that bing the mercury."

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin mercuriusder. Middle English mercurie English mercury Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English mercuriation From mercury + -ation.

Inflected Forms

mercuriations (plural)

Questions

What does mercuriation mean?: Any reaction that introduces a covalent mercury bond into a compound
Where does mercuriation come from?: Etymology tree Latin mercuriusder. Middle English mercurie English mercury Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English mercuriation From mercury + -ation.

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