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quicksilver

 noun
     
quick‧sil‧ver [uncountable]
1 old use the metal mercury
2 literary something that is like quicksilver changes or moves quickly in a way that you do not expect:
His mood changed like quicksilver.
—quicksilver adjective:
his quicksilver temperament
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