Mercury mirror
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Mercury mirror can mean:
  • A glass mirror created by Mercury silvering
    Mercury silvering
    Mercury silvering or fire gilding is a silvering technique for applying a thin layer of precious metal such as silver or gold to a base metal object. The process was invented during the Middle Ages and is documented in Vannoccio Biringuccio's 1540 book De la pirotechnia...

    • Mercury glass
      Mercury glass
      Mercury glass is the common term for silvered glass, which describes glass that was blown double walled, then silvered between the layers with a liquid silvering solution, and sealed. Although mercury was originally used to provide the reflective coating for mirrors, elemental mercury was never...

       mirror.
  • A component of liquid mirror telescopes
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