Quicksilver
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Quicksilver is another name for the chemical element mercury, literally meaning "living silver" based on its appearance and its unusual liquidity at room temperature.
Quicksilver may also mean:
- Quiksilver, a clothing brand specializing in surfing and winter sports
- Quicksilver Software, a computer games company based in Irvine, California
- Quicksilver (software), a free software computer application for Mac OS by Blacktree Software
- Quicksilver Forums, a forum software
- Quicksilver (novel), a novel by Neal Stephenson
- Quicksilver (Game show), a short-lived USA Network game show
- Quicksilver Messenger Service, an influential 1960s psychedelic rock band from San Francisco, California
- Quicksilver (wrestler), the stage name of an American professional wrestler
- Quicksilver (aircraft), a type of ultralight aircraft that was very popular in the 1980s
- Quicksilver (comics), a superhero in the Marvel Comics universe with the ability to travel into the future for limited periods of time
- Quicksilver, a superhero character appearing in Quality Comics publications; it was later revived by DC Comics and renamed Max Mercury
- Quicksilver, a character in the cartoon series Silverhawks
- "Quicksilver", a fictional chemical substance in The Invisible Man that can bend light, thus making things invisible
- "Quicksilver", a gun the playable character Vincent Valentine is first equipped with in the 1997 video game Final Fantasy VII
- "Quicksilver", an attack by the sensea in
- "Quicksilver", a common name for the revision of Power Mac G4 introduced in July, 2001
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