mercuric chloride
noun
: a heavy crystalline poisonous compound HgCl2 used as a disinfectant and fungicide and in photography
Word History
First Known Use
1869, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
mercuric chloride
noun
: a heavy crystalline poisonous compound HgCl2 used as a disinfectant and fungicide and in photography
called also bichloride, bichloride of mercury, corrosive sublimate, mercury bichloride