# Quicksilver

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**Quicksilver** may refer to:

- [Quicksilver (metal)](/source/Quicksilver_(metal)), the chemical element mercury

## Arts and entertainment

### Music

- Quicksilver, a bluegrass band fronted by [Doyle Lawson](/source/Doyle_Lawson)
- ["Quicksilver" (song)](/source/Quicksilver_(song)), a 1950 hit for Bing Crosby
- [*Quicksilver* (soundtrack)](/source/Quicksilver_(soundtrack)), from the 1986 film
- [*Quicksilver* (album)](/source/Quicksilver_(album)), an album by Quicksilver Messenger Service
- [*Quicksilver* (EP)](/source/Quicksilver_(EP)), a 2009 EP by The Crüxshadows
- "[Quicksilver Lightning](/source/Quicksilver_Lightning)", a song by Roger Daltrey
- ["Quicksilver" (instrumental)](/source/Quicksilver_(instrumental)), 1969 instrumental from Pink Floyd album *Soundtrack from the Film More*
- Shortened name form of [Quicksilver Messenger Service](/source/Quicksilver_Messenger_Service), used by the band on their later record covers
- ["Quicksilver Girl" (song)](/source/Quicksilver_(song)), Steve Miller Band, 1968 album Sailor
- Quicksilver, a classical music ensemble directed by [Robert Mealy](/source/Robert_Mealy) & Julie Andrijeski

### Film and television

- [*Quicksilver* (Irish game show)](/source/Quicksilver_(Irish_game_show)), an Irish quiz show
- [*Quicksilver* (film)](/source/Quicksilver_(film)), a 1986 film

### Fictional entities

- [Quicksilver (Marvel Comics)](/source/Quicksilver_(Marvel_Comics)), a superhero in the Marvel Comics universe
- Quicksilver (DC Comics), or [Max Mercury](/source/Max_Mercury), a superhero in the DC Comics universe
- Quicksilver, leader of the SilverHawks on the 1986 animated television series [SilverHawks](/source/SilverHawks)
- Quicksilver, a fictional synthetic hormone in *[The Invisible Man](/source/The_Invisible_Man_(2000_TV_series))*
- Quicksilver, a dragon in *[The World of Ice & Fire](/source/The_World_of_Ice_%26_Fire)* and *[Fire & Blood](/source/Fire_%26_Blood_(novel))*

### Other arts

- [*Quicksilver* (Stephenson novel)](/source/Quicksilver_(Stephenson_novel)), first volume of *The Baroque Cycle* by Neal Stephenson
- [*Quicksilver* (Hart novel)](/source/Quicksilver_(Hart_novel)), romance novel by Callie Hart

## Transportation

- [USS *Quicksilver*](/source/USS_Quicksilver), a US Navy patrol vessel
- [Zimmer Quicksilver](/source/Zimmer_Quicksilver), a personal luxury car

## Computing

- [QuickSilver (project)](/source/QuickSilver_(project)), a software research project at Cornell University
- [Quicksilver (software)](/source/Quicksilver_(software)), an open source application launcher for Mac OS X
- QuickSilver, Broadvision desktop publishing software, formerly by [Interleaf](/source/Interleaf#Document_Conversion)

## Organizations

- [Quicksilver Aircraft](/source/Quicksilver_Aircraft), an American manufacturer of ultralight and light aircraft
- [Quicksilver (ISP)](/source/Quicksilver_(ISP)), a New Zealand internet service provider

### Entertainment

- [Quicksilver (company)](/source/Quicksilver_(company)), UK's largest amusement arcade company
- [Quiksilver](/source/Quiksilver), a surf and sports related apparel brand
- [Quicksilver Software](/source/Quicksilver_Software), a computer-games company
- [Las Vegas Quicksilvers](/source/Las_Vegas_Quicksilvers), a former soccer team

## People

- [DJ Quicksilver](/source/DJ_Quicksilver) (born 1964), electronic musician
- [Quicksilver (wrestler)](/source/Quicksilver_(wrestler)), born Richard Clements, American professional wrestler

## Other uses

- *Quicksilver*, a locomotive of [Great Western Railway 3031 Class](/source/GWR_3031_Class)
- Quixilver, either of two robotics teams at [Leland High School (San Jose, California)](/source/Leland_High_School_(San_Jose,_California))

## See also

- [Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver](/source/Doyle_Lawson_%26_Quicksilver), a band
- [Operation Quicksilver (disambiguation)](/source/Operation_Quicksilver_(disambiguation))
- [Quicksilva](/source/Quicksilva), a video game publisher

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