NOUN
- a white poisonous soluble crystalline sublimate of mercury; used as a pesticide or antiseptic or wood preservative
How To Use mercuric chloride In A Sentence
- The zinc salt components mimic mercuric chlorides but without toxicity and are used in other modern fixatives to replace B5-type fixation.
- Zalups et al. have suggested that urinary mercury excretion is related positively to the degree of cellular damage during acute mercuric chloride-induced renal damage.
- Ehrhardt (Eng.Pat. 2,407, 1898) patented a method of making antiseptic mercury soap by using mercury albuminate -- a combination of mercuric chloride and casein, which is soluble in alkali, and added to the soap in an alkaline solution. The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
- Inorganic mercury compounds like mercurous chloride and mercuric chloride are white powders and do not generally vaporize at room temperatures like elemental mercury will. Public Health Statement for Mercury
- The action of microdoses of mercuric chloride on diastase. The Best Alternative Medicine
- Inorganic salts of mercury, including ammoniated mercuric chloride and mercuric iodide, have been used in skin-lightening creams. Public Health Statement for Mercury
- This applies particularly to salts of mercury, such as _corrosive sublimate_ or mercuric chloride, and _biniodide of mercury_, both of which have very considerable germicidal power, and are consequently frequently added to soaps. The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
- Some skin-lightening creams contain ammoniated mercuric chloride and mercuric iodide. Public Health Statement for Mercury
