English > calomel: 1 sense > noun 1, substance| Meaning | A tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic. |
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| Synonym | mercurous chloride |
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| Broader | chloride | Any compound containing a chlorine atom |
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| Substance of | blackwash, black lotion | A mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores |
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| Substances | mercury, quicksilver, hydrargyrum, Hg, atomic number 80 | A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element |
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| Spanish | calomelanos, calomel, cloruro de mercurio |
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| Catalan | calomelanos, calomelans, clorur mercuriós |
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