mercury chloride

noun

a white poisonous soluble crystalline sublimate of mercury; used as a pesticide or antiseptic or wood preservative

• Syn: ↑mercuric chloride, ↑bichloride of mercury, ↑corrosive sublimate

• Hypernyms: ↑sublimate

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noun

: a chloride of mercury: as

a. : calomel

b. : a heavy transparent crystalline poisonous compound HgCl₂ made usually by heating mercury with gaseous chlorine or by subliming a mixture of mercury sulfate and common salt and used chiefly as a disinfectant and fungicide, in making other mercury compounds, and in photography — called also corrosive sublimate, mercuric chloride, mercury(II) chloride

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mercury chloride,

= bichloride of mercury. (Cf. ↑bichloride of mercury)