hydrargyriferous

English

From Latin hydrargyrum (“mercury”) + -iferous.

hydrargyriferous (comparative more hydrargyriferous, superlative most hydrargyriferous)

Bearing or producing mercury
- 1851, Johann Georg Heck, Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art, page 146:
  ... antimonial silver accompanied by arsenic and galena; the hydrargyriferous with native mercury and cinnabar; the cupriferous with copper oxydes ...
- 1546, Georgius Agricola, De Natura Fossilium:
  Certain minerals can be compressed such as native spodos and a black mineral similar to the down of plants and which is sometimes argentiferous, sometimes hydrargyriferous (metacinnabarite).