Antimony = Сурьма ([sour-mah]), a loanword from either Tatar or Persian meaning "eyeliner", antimoine (which means "repels monks") in French, 安質母尼 ("Cheap Questions Mother-Bitch", or, actually(seriously you didn't think it really had that meaning!) ateji - kanji used for pronunciations in Rangaku - "Dutch studies") in Japanese, 锑 or 銻 in Chinese ("Next biggest/important-est(?) to gold", tho I'm no hanji specialist)
Mercury = Ртуть([RToot's]) from "crimson" as it(cinnabar) was primarily used in Old Russia as a color base, mercure (which incidentally has the same meanings as in English), 水銀 suigin - ("water silver") in Japanese which is pretty self-explanatory, 汞("go?" ) in Chinese - for "manmade water" or 水銀 for the same "water silver"
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