NOUN
- a white poisonous soluble crystalline sublimate of mercury; used as a pesticide or antiseptic or wood preservative
How To Use corrosive sublimate In A Sentence
- And I believe that when corrosive sublimate is slow in taking hold, alternate dressings of peroxide of hydrogen are just the thing. Chapter 15
- The subchloride of mercury, calomel, is the great British specific; the protochloride of mercury, corrosive sublimate, kills like arsenic, but no chemist could have told us it would be so. Medical Essays, 1842-1882
- In a flash I knew that if I added malic acid to the mercury -- perchloride of mercury or corrosive sublimate -- I would have calomel or subchloride of mercury, the only thing that would switch the poison out of my system and Mrs. Boncour's. The Poisoned Pen
- Meconic acid gives a blood-red colour with perchloride of iron, not discharged by corrosive sublimate or chloride of gold. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
- The similar colour produced by sulpho-cyanide of potassium and perchloride of iron is discharged by chloride of gold and corrosive sublimate. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
- The arsenic and corrosive sublimate effloresced from the ties along the Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885
- Calomel is often given as a medicine, but not so with corrosive sublimate, which is usually employed in the arts as a poison. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
- This develops a blood-red colour with perchloride of iron, bleached by corrosive sublimate. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
- If mercury is found, the contents of the stomach may be dialyzed, the resulting clear fluid concentrated and shaken with ether, which has the power of taking corrosive sublimate up, and thus separating it from arsenic and other metallic poisons. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
- Bichloride of mercury (corrosive sublimate) is the material employed in the kyanization of timber, the probable mode of action being its combination with the albumen of the wood, to form an insoluble compound not susceptible of spontaneous decomposition, and therefore incapable of exciting fermentation. Forty Centuries of Ink
