mercury-contaminated

1. 1.

   contaminated by mercury

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Questions about mercury-contaminated

What does mercury-contaminated mean?

mercury-contaminated means "contaminated by mercury".

How many syllables are in mercury-contaminated?

mercury-contaminated has 8 syllables and divides as mer-cu-ry--con-ta-mi-na-ted under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is mercury-contaminated a common word?

mercury-contaminated 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.