Quicksilver vs. Quiksilver — What's the Difference?

See mercury.

Quiksilver is a brand of surf-inspired apparel and accessories that was founded in 1969 in Torquay, Australia, but is now based in Huntington Beach, California. It is one of the world's largest brands of surfwear and boardsport-related equipment.

Unpredictable; mercurial

The metal mercury.

(colloquial) An amalgam of mercury and tin applied to the backs of mirrors, quicksilvering.

Unpredictable, erratic or fickle; mercurial.

To overlay with quicksilver.

To treat with quicksilver.

The metal mercury; - so called from its resemblance to liquid silver.

A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures

Liable to sudden unpredictable change;