| NOUN | substance | mercurous chloride, calomel | 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 | calomel | |
| 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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