Sun vs. Mercury — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Sun and Mercury
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Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy mainly as visible light, ultraviolet light, and infrared radiation.
Mercury
Roman Mythology A god that served as messenger to the other gods and was himself the god of commerce, travel, and thievery.
Sun
Often Sun The star around which Earth and other planets orbit. It provides heat and light to Earth. It has a mean distance from Earth of about 150 million kilometers (93 million miles), a diameter of approximately 1,391,000 kilometers (864,000 miles), and a mass about 333,000 times that of Earth.
Mercury
The smallest of the planets and the one nearest the sun, having a sidereal period of revolution about the sun of 87.97 days at a mean distance of 57.91 million kilometers (35.98 million miles) and a mean radius of approximately 2,440 kilometers (1,516 miles).
Sun
A star that is the center of a planetary system.
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Mercury
Symbol HgA silvery-white poisonous metallic element, liquid at room temperature and used in thermometers, barometers, vapor lamps, and batteries and in the preparation of chemical pesticides. Atomic number 80; atomic weight 200.59; melting point -38.83°C; boiling point 356.62°C; specific gravity 13.546 (at 20°C); valence 1, 2.Also called quicksilver. See Periodic Table.
Sun
The radiant energy, especially heat and visible light, emitted by the sun; sunshine.
Mercury
Temperature:The mercury had fallen rapidly by morning.
Sun
A sunlike object, representation, or design.
Mercury
Any of several weedy plants of the genera Mercurialis and Acalypha.
Sun
To expose to the sun's rays, as for warming, drying, or tanning.
Mercury
A metal.
Sun
To expose oneself or itself to the sun.
Mercury
A silvery-colored, toxic, metallic chemical element, liquid at room temperature, with atomic number 80 and symbol Hg.
Sun
The star that the Earth revolves around and from which it receives light and warmth.
Mercury
One of the elemental principles formerly thought to be present in all metals.
Sun
(astronomy) A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
Mercury
(with definite article) Ambient pressure or temperature (from the use of mercury in barometers and thermometers).
The mercury there has averaged 37.6°C, 2.3°C above the February norm.
Sun
The light and warmth which is received from the sun; sunshine or sunlight.
Mercury
(obsolete) Liveliness, volatility.
Sun
(figurative) Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.
Mercury
Any of several types of plant.
Sun
Sunrise or sunset.
Mercury
An annual plant, annual mercury (Mercurialis annua), formerly grown for its medicinal properties; French mercury, herb mercury.
Sun
A revolution of the Earth around the Sun; a year.
Mercury
Any plant of any species of the genus and the genus Mercurialis.
Sun
A transversing of the sky by the Sun; a day.
Mercury
A similar edible plant (Blitum bonus-henricus), otherwise known as English mercury or novern=1.
Sun
The nineteenth trump/major arcana card of the Tarot.
Mercury
The poison oak or poison ivy.
Sun
(cartomancy) The thirty-first Lenormand card.
Mercury
A Latin god of commerce and gain; - treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence.
Sun
A traditional Japanese unit of length, approximately 30.3 millimetres (1.193 inches).
Mercury
A metallic element mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar, one of its ores. It is a heavy, opaque, glistening liquid (commonly called quicksilver), and is used in barometers, thermometers, etc. Specific gravity 13.6. Symbol Hg (Hydrargyrum). Atomic weight 199.8. Mercury has a molecule which consists of only one atom. It was named by the alchemists after the god Mercury, and designated by his symbol,
Sun
(transitive) To expose to the warmth and radiation of the sun.
Beautiful bodies lying on the beach, sunning their bronzed limbs.
Mercury
One of the planets of the solar system, being the one nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is about 36,000,000 miles. Its period is 88 days, and its diameter 3,000 miles.
Sun
(transitive) To warm or dry in the sunshine.
Mercury
A carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger; hence, also, a newspaper.
Sun
(intransitive) To be exposed to the sun.
Mercury
Sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness.
He was so full of mercury that he could not fix long in any friendship, or to any design.
Sun
To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.
Mercury
A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe.
Sun
See Sunn.
Mercury
To wash with a preparation of mercury.
Sun
The luminous orb, the light of which constitutes day, and its absence night; the central body round which the earth and planets revolve, by which they are held in their orbits, and from which they receive light and heat. Its mean distance from the earth is about 92,500,000 miles, and its diameter about 860,000.
Mercury
A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
Sun
Any heavenly body which forms the center of a system of orbs.
Mercury
(Roman mythology) messenger of Jupiter and god of commerce; counterpart of Greek Hermes
Sun
The direct light or warmth of the sun; sunshine.
Lambs that did frisk in the sun.
Mercury
The smallest planet and the nearest to the sun
Sun
That which resembles the sun, as in splendor or importance; any source of light, warmth, or animation.
For the Lord God is a sun and shield.
I will never consent to put out the sun of sovereignity to posterity.
Mercury
Temperature measured by a mercury thermometer;
The mercury was falling rapidly
Sun
To expose to the sun's rays; to warm or dry in the sun; as, to sun cloth; to sun grain.
Then to sun thyself in open air.
Sun
A typical star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system;
The sun contains 99.85% of the mass in the solar system
Sun
The rays of the sun;
The shingles were weathered by the sun and wind
Sun
A person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc
Sun
Any star around which a planetary system evolves
Sun
First day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians
Sun
Expose one's body to the sun
Sun
Expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun;
Insolated paper may turn yellow and crumble
These herbs suffer when sunned
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