| 单词 | sweet sublimate |
| 释义 | > as lemmassweet sublimate sweet sublimate n. now historical a supposedly sweet-tasting compound of mercury, probably consisting of calomel (mercurous chloride) and/or corrosive sublimate (mercuric chloride) with sugar of lead (lead acetate) and other impurities. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > poisonous chemicals mercury sublimy?1540 sublimate1543 sublimatum1558 sublimy1558 mercury sublimate1562 corrosive sublimate1664 sweet sublimate1664 supplement1769 Prussian acid1783 oxalic acid1788 prussic acid1788 cyanide1815 cyanuret1827 nitrobenzide1835 nitrobenzol1848 pyridine1851 nitrobenzene1852 isonitrile1871 iso-cyanide1877 1664 P. D. C. tr. N. Le Fèvre Compend. Body Chymistry II. ii. x. 207 Then shall you have that they call Mercurius dulcis, or sweet Mercury, sweet Sublimate, the sweet and mitigated Eagle, the tamed Dragon. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Sweet Sublimate is a Corrosive Sublimate, whose Points have been qualify'd by some Preparation. 1828 S. F. Gray Operative Chemist 731 Calomel. This, which is the sweet sublimate of the old chemists, has received a number of names lately, as mild muriate of quicksilver, [etc.]. 1962 M. P. Crosland Hist. Stud. Lang. Chem. iii. 112 In the seventeenth century it was known that sweet sublimate and corrosive sublimate were both ‘mixt bodies’ containing mercury and an acid. 2009 J. M. Hightower Diagnosis Mercury v. 51 Mercuric chloride (HgCl2), also known as corrosive or sweet sublimate, or bichloride of mercury, was once the most commonly prescribed form of mercurial medicine and antiseptic. < as lemmas |
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