corrosive sublimate

American  

noun

1. Chemistry Now Rare. mercuric chloride.

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corrosive sublimate British  

noun

1. another name for mercuric chloride

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Etymology

Origin of corrosive sublimate

First recorded in 1700–10

Example Sentences

With a pen dipped in corrosive sublimate, Sorel uncovers the Presidents from Harry Truman as a Keystone Kop to Jimmy Carter in the throes of a scatological tantrum.

From Time Magazine Archive

Put it with the corrosive sublimate into a white or queensware vessel having a close cover, and holding a pint, to allow for swelling.

From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Leslie, Eliza

Of course the corrosive sublimate, if at all operative, had affected me through the medium of the circulation and not by direct contact.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

Pepper51 gave 1/32 grain of corrosive sublimate every two hours in a bad form of diphtheritic croup, with favorable result.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

A transparent liquor, which emits very copious fumes, called, from the inventor, the smoking liquor of Libavius, is made by distilling equal parts of amalgam of tin and mercury with corrosive sublimate, triturated together.

From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph