mercuric

1. 1.

   of or containing mercury

   Synonymsmercurous

   chemistry

Questions about mercuric

What does mercuric mean?

mercuric means "of or containing mercury".

How many syllables are in mercuric?

mercuric has 3 syllables: mer-cur-ic. The stress falls on "cur". In IPA it is /mɚˈkjʊɹɪk/.

What is another word for mercuric?

Close synonyms include mercurous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mercuric a common word?

mercuric is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.