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

He advised me to use, as a wash to the irritated and irritable surface, a weak solution of corrosive sublimate.

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

If antimony, corrosive sublimate, &c., ever proved destructive, they always possess that power, and can never be used with any degree of assurance that they will make a sick animal well.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George

It is to be hoped the claim that corrosive sublimate is an efficient antiseptic in the proportion of 1:10,000 may prove well founded.

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

Mr. Adet has shewn, that this liquor bears the same relation to the common solution of tin, that corrosive sublimate does to calomel, and has given an ingenious solution of many of its properties.

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