mercuric oxide

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noun Chemistry.

a slightly crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous compound, HgO, occurring as a coarse, orange-red powder (red mercuric oxide ) or as a fine, orange-yellow powder (yellow mercuric oxide ): used chiefly as a pigment in paints and as an antiseptic in pharmaceuticals.

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Words nearby mercuric oxide

mercurial barometer, mercurialism, mercurialize, mercuric, mercuric chloride, mercuric oxide, mercuric sulfide, mercuric sulphide, mercurify, mercurize, mercuro-

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Nitric oxide helps to promote the flow of oxygen, so it may improve your endurance and fight fatigue during your sweat session.
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On addition of a solution of mercuric chloride to the red filtrate, a brown flocculent precipitate was formed.
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The properties of ammoniacal solutions of silver oxide are in entire agreement with this conception.
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Mercuric cyanide, as we have seen (p. 115), is exceptional in its exceedingly small capacity for ionization.
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British Dictionary definitions for mercuric oxide

mercuric oxide

noun

a soluble poisonous substance existing in red and yellow powdered forms: used as pigments. Formula: HgOSystematic name: mercury(II) oxide

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