About The Word Calomel
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Calomel
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What's The Definition Of Calomel?
[n] a tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic
Synonyms | Synonyms for Calomel: mercurous chloride Related Terms | Find terms related to Calomel: See Also | atomic number 80 | chloride | Hg | hydrargyrum | mercury | quicksilver Calomel In Webster's Dictionary \Cal"o*mel\, n. [Gr. ????? beautiful + ????? black. So
called from its being white, though made from a black mixture
of mercury and corrosive sublimate. Cf. F. calom['e]las.]
(Chem.)
Mild chloride of mercury, {Hg2Cl2}, a heavy, white or
yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used
in medicine as a mercurial and purgative; mercurous chloride.
It occurs native as the mineral horn quicksilver.
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