quicksilver
transitive verb
to cover with mercury
adjective
- of or like mercury
- suggestive of mercury; specif., quick, lively, brilliant, etc.
See quicksilver in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(kwĭkˈsĭlˌvər)
noun adjective Unpredictable; mercurial: “a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next” (Sven Birkerts).
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