| NOUN | substance | silver nitrate | a nitrate used in making photographic emulsions |
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| Meaning | A nitrate used in making photographic emulsions; also used in medicine as a cautery and as a topical antibacterial agent. | |
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| Narrower | lunar caustic | silver nitrate fused into sticks and formerly used as a caustic |
| Broader | caustic | Any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue |
| nitrate | Any compound containing the nitrate group (such as a salt or ester of nitric acid) | |
| Substance of | emulsion, photographic emulsion | A light-sensitive coating on paper or film |
| Spanish | nitrato de plata | |
| Catalan | nitrat de plata | |
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