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:

• Quicksilver (aircraft), a type of ultralight aircraft that was very popular in the 1980s
• Quicksilver (band), a bluegrass music band lead by Doyle Lawson
• Quicksilver (comics), a superhero in the Marvel Comics with super-speed and reflexes
• Quicksilver (movie), a movie directed by Tom Donnelly and starring Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz, Paul Rodriguez, Rudy Ramos, and Laurence Fishburne
• Quicksilver (novel), a novel by Neal Stephenson
• Quicksilver (role-playing game), a role-playing game by Jeff and Amanda Dee
• Quicksilver (Silverhawks), a character in the cartoon series Silverhawks
• Quicksilver (software), a free software computer application for Mac OS X by Blacktree Software
• Quicksilver Messenger Service, an influential 1960s psychedelic rock band from San Francisco, California
• Quicksilver Software, a computer games company based in Irvine, California
• Quiksilver, a clothing brand specializing in surfing and winter sports

• A fictional chemical substance in The Invisible Man that can bend light, thus making things invisible.
• The gun that the playable character Vincent Valentine is first equipped with in the computer game Final Fantasy VII.
• An attack by the sensea in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars.

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