Search Result for "mercurous chloride":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic;
[syn: calomel, mercurous chloride]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Mercurous \Mer*cu"rous\, a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mercury; containing mercury; -- said of those compounds of mercury in which it is present in its highest proportion. [1913 Webster] Mercurous chloride. (Chem.) See Calomel. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

mercurous chloride n 1: a tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic [syn: calomel, mercurous chloride]