mercurial in the PONS Dictionary

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Collie recorded an initial elevation of 11500ft m using a mercurial barometer.
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He was mercurial and so too did his work have that quality.
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He was described as a handsome, mercurial, noisy, combative failed dreamer and a hard-drinking, skirt-chasing dandy of a daddy.
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The mercurial piano part is marked "leggieramente", and the two main themes are clever and light-hearted.
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He is a mercurial personality given to extreme manifestations of anger, sadness, or joviality, depending on the power of the catalyst provoking them.
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You have the elements lined up against the wall, and in some mercurial way, they slip free and attack you from behind.
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The next year he did a brief stint in a state mental hospital because of his mercurial temper.
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He was a mercurial, inventive off spinner who used flight, guile and turn to dismiss batsman and demanded attacking fields from his captains.
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He was his mercurial sister's most reliable confidant.
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A cable system was used to avoid problems with the mercurial river.
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