NOUN | substance | calomel, mercurous chloride | a tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic |
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Meaning | A tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic. | |
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Synonym | mercurous chloride | |
Broader | chloride | Any compound containing a chlorine atom |
Substance of | blackwash, black lotion | A mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores |
Substances | mercury, quicksilver, hydrargyrum, Hg, atomic number 80 | A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element |
Spanish | calomelanos, calomel, cloruro de mercurio | |
Catalan | calomelanos, calomelans, clorur mercuriós |
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