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The Romans, who call mercury argentum vivum …
Years: 45BCE - 99
The Romans, who call mercury argentum vivum, living silver, employ it, unfortunately for those using it, in cosmetics.
Pliny and Dioscorides write about the recovery of quicksilver from cinnabar by distillation and condensation of the vapor, the forerunner of modern methods of metallurgical treatment.
Pliny also describes the trade between Spain and Rome in mercury and cinnabar, which is also employed as a pigment or coloring because of its attractive red hue.
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