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Corrosive Sublimate

Definition: Corrosive Sublimate

Corrosive Sublimate

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Corrosive Sublimate

Synonyms: bichloride of mercury (n), mercuric chloride (n), mercury chloride (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Corrosive Sublimate

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Bane

Albany hemp, arsenious oxide, arsenious acid; bichloride of mercury; carbonic acid, carbonic gas; choke damp, corrosive sublimate, fire damp; hydrocyanic acid, cyanide, Prussic acid, hydrogen cyanide; marsh gas, nux vomica, ratsbane.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Corrosive Sublimate

English words defined with "corrosive sublimate": bichloride of mercuryKyanizeYellow precipitate, Yellow wash. (references)
Specialty definitions using "corrosive sublimate": SACHARUM OFFICINALE. (references)
Etymologies containing "corrosive sublimate": Calomel. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Corrosive Sublimate

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Corrosive Sublimate

Language Translations for "corrosive sublimate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

sublimaat (mercuric chloride, sublimate, sublimation product). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

sublimato. (various references)

   

German

  

Sublimat (sublimate). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

昇汞 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しょう"う (ascending and descending, brilliant light, burningincense, commerce and industry, commercial port, commissioned officer, consumption, exhaustion, going up and down, lull, passing ones time, symptoms). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

orrosivecay ublimatesay

   

Portuguese

  

sublimado (sublimate). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сулема (bichloride of mercury, sublimate). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Corrosive Sublimate

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Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-i-i-l-m-o-o-r-r-s-s-t-u-v"

-5 letters: borosilicates, calorimetries, colorimetries, observatories, ovariectomies, overambitious, subliteracies.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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