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caesarpk
June 02, 2009, 09:54 PM
In Code Breaker 45 page 6 (http://mangahelpers.com/downloads/read-online/32091/6), the character calls mercury by three names: 汞(こう),汞(みずがね),水銀

I went with Hydrogyrum, Liquid Silver, and Mercury

I would appreciate any suggestions as to how to distinguish them in English

Meriken
June 03, 2009, 04:44 PM
Do you mean hydrargyrum? Well, either way, I think that's pretty much the best option out there. 汞=Archaic kanji for mercury, and hydro/hydrargyrum=Latin for mercury, so it fits nicely.

caesarpk
June 04, 2009, 08:45 AM
The website I looked up (by googling) said it was hydrogyrum so I went with that, but I'll make sure if it's hydrargyrum or hydrogyrum.
Thanks! Somebody saisd quicksilver but I'm not sure about that option.

EDIT: Wikipedia said mercury is called quicksilver or hydrargyrum. So I'm going with these two. Thanks again.