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Quicksilver (metal) Mercury is a chemical element with the symbol Hg and atomic number 80. It is also known as quicksilver and was formerly named hydrargyrum ( ) from the Greek words, ''hydor'' (water) and ''argyros'' (silver). A heavy, silvery d-block element, me ...

, the chemical element mercury

Arts and entertainment

Music

* Quicksilver, a bluegrass band fronted by

Doyle Lawson Doyle Lawson (born April 20, 1944) is an American traditional bluegrass and Southern gospel musician. He is best known as a mandolin player, vocalist, producer, and leader of the 6-man group Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. Lawson was inducted into ...

* "Quicksilver" (song), a 1950 hit for Bing Crosby * ''Quicksilver'' (soundtrack), from the 1986 film * ''Quicksilver'' (album), an album by Quicksilver Messenger Service * ''Quicksilver'' (EP), a 2009 EP by The Crüxshadows * "

Quicksilver Lightning "Quicksilver Lightning" is a song by Roger Daltrey, who at the time was the former lead singer of The Who. The track is credited as being written by Dean Pitchford and being composed by Giorgio Moroder. The track is the Theme music, theme tune f ...

", a song by Roger Daltrey * "Quicksilver" (instrumental), 1969 instrumental from Pink Floyd album ''Soundtrack from the Film More'' * Shortened name form of

Quicksilver Messenger Service Quicksilver Messenger Service is an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco. The band achieved wide popularity in the San Francisco Bay Area and, through their recordings, with psychedelic rock enthusiasts around the globe, ...

, used by the band on their later record covers * "Quicksilver Girl" (song), Steve Miller Band, 1968 album Sailor * Quicksilver, a classical music ensemble directed by Robert Mealy & Julie Andrijeski

Film and television

* ''Quicksilver'' (Irish game show), an Irish quiz show * ''Quicksilver'' (film), a 1986 film

Fictional entities

Quicksilver (Marvel Comics) Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) is a fictional character, fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in the comic book ''The Uncanny X-Men'' #4 (March 1964) and was created by St ...

, a superhero in the Marvel Comics universe * Quicksilver (DC Comics), or

Max Mercury Max Mercury is a fictional DC Comics superhero similar to Quality Comics' Quicksilver. Initially an obscure speedster, the character was rebooted by Mark Waid in the pages of ''The Flash'' and turned into a mentor for Wally West and Bart Allen. ...

, a superhero in the DC Comics universe * Quicksilver, leader of the SilverHawks on the 1986 animated television series

SilverHawks ''SilverHawks'' is an American animated television series developed by Rankin/Bass Productions and distributed by Lorimar-Telepictures in 1986. The animation was provided by Japanese studio Pacific Animation Corporation. In total, 65 episodes were ...

* Quicksilver, a fictional synthetic hormone in ''

The Invisible Man ''The Invisible Man'' is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in ''Pearson's Weekly'' in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man to whom the title refers is Griffin, a scientist who has devote ...

'' * Quicksilver, a dragon in ''

The World of Ice & Fire ''The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones'' is a companion book for George R. R. Martin's ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' fantasy series. Written by Martin, Elio M. García Jr. and Linda Antonsson, it was publi ...

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Fire & Blood Fire and Blood may refer to: * ''Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico'', a 1973 book by T. R. Fehrenbach * ''Fire and Blood'' (Manowar DVD), a 1998 music DVD by Manowar * ''Fire and Blood'' (Daugherty), a 2003 composition for solo violin and orche ...

Other arts

* ''Quicksilver'' (novel), first volume of ''The Baroque Cycle'' by Neal Stephenson

Aircraft

Eipper Quicksilver Quicksilver is a line of single and two-place high wing, single-engine, ultralight aircraft that evolved from weight-shift hang gliders including Bob Lovejoy's High Tailer. The earliest powered version, the Quicksilver C, was created as a se ...

Quicksilver GT500 The Quicksilver GT500 is a family of American strut-braced, high-wing, pusher configuration, tricycle gear aircraft built by Quicksilver Aeronautics of Temecula, California. The aircraft is available as a kit for amateur construction or as a ...

* USS ''Quicksilver'' (SP-281), US Navy patrol vessel

Computing

QuickSilver (project) The QuickSilver project at Cornell University is an AFRL-funded effort to build a platform in support of a new generation of scalable, secure, reliable distributed computing applications able to "regenerate" themselves after failure. Among the pa ...

, a software research project at Cornell University *

Quicksilver (software) Quicksilver is a utility software, utility app for macOS. Originally developed as proprietary freeware by Nicholas Jitkoff of Blacktree, Inc., it is now an Open-source software, open-source project hosted on GitHub. Quicksilver is essentially a gr ...

, an open source application launcher for Mac OS X * QuickSilver, Broadvision desktop publishing software, formerly by

Interleaf Interleaf, Inc., was a company that created computer software products for the technical publishing creation and distribution process. Founded in 1981, its initial product was the first commercial document processor that integrated text and graphi ...

Organizations

Quicksilver Manufacturing Quicksilver Aircraft is an American manufacturer of ultralight and light aircraft A light aircraft is an aircraft that has a maximum gross takeoff weight of or less.Crane, Dale: ''Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms, third edition'', page 308 ...

, an aircraft company *

Quicksilver (ISP) Quicksilver was an ISP based in Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand. It offered broadband, dialup and toll's services around New Zealand. Quicksilver was an activity of Mercury Telecommunications Ltd, a company formed by Matthew Hobbs and Mark Frater, ...

, a New Zealand internet service provider

Entertainment

Quicksilver (company) Quicksilver is a British amusement arcade and gambling machine company. It is the UK's largest slot gambling machine operator, with over 200 high street outlets and about 10,000 gambling machines. Quicksilver describes itself as the "largest am ...

, UK's largest amusement arcade company *

Quiksilver Quiksilver is a brand of surf-inspired apparel and accessories that was founded in 1969 in Torquay, Australia, but is now based in Huntington Beach, California. It is one of the world's largest brands of surfwear and boardsport-related equipm ...

, a surf and sports related apparel brand *

Quicksilver Software Quicksilver Software may refer to: *Quicksilver Software, Inc. - Irvine, CA based developer of computer and video games and other software *Quicksilver (software) Quicksilver is a utility software, utility app for macOS. Originally developed as pr ...

, a computer-games company *

Las Vegas Quicksilvers The Las Vegas Quicksilvers were an American soccer team that competed in the North American Soccer League (NASL) during the 1977 season. The team was based in Las Vegas, Nevada and played their home games at Las Vegas Stadium. After the 19 ...

, a former soccer team

People

DJ Quicksilver Orhan Terzi (born 28 June 1964), better known by his stage name DJ Quicksilver, is a German-Turkish DJ and music producer. His stage name derives from his days taking part in DJ contests, where a mercury column would gauge audience reaction. Ea ...

(born 1964), electronic musician *

Quicksilver (wrestler) Rick John Clements is an American retired professional wrestler better known by his ring name Quicksilver. He was based out of the California independent circuit, working for promotions such as Pro Wrestling Guerrilla and SoCal Uncensored, but als ...

, born Richard Clements, American professional wrestler

Other uses

* ''Quicksilver'', a locomotive of Great Western Railway 3031 Class * Quixilver, either of two robotics teams at

Leland High School (San Jose, California) Leland High School is a public high school located in the Almaden Valley in San Jose, California. Leland is one of the nine high schools in the San Jose Unified School District and is a STEM school. History Leland was founded in 1967. It was ...