calomel

cal·o·mel

 (kăl′ə-mĕl′, -məl)

n.

A white or brown tasteless powder, Hg₂Cl₂, used as an insecticide and formerly as a purgative. Also called mercurous chloride.

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[Probably from New Latin calomelās : Greek kalos, beautiful + melās, black.]

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calomel

(ˈkæləˌmɛl; -məl)

n

(Elements & Compounds) a colourless tasteless powder consisting chiefly of mercurous chloride, used medicinally, esp as a cathartic. Formula: Hg2Cl2

[C17: perhaps from New Latin calomelas (unattested), literally: beautiful black (perhaps so named because it was originally sublimed from a black mixture of mercury and mercuric chloride), from Greek kalos beautiful + melas black]

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cal•o•mel

(ˈkæl əˌmɛl, -məl)

n.

a white, tasteless powder, Hg₂Cl₂, used chiefly as a purgative and fungicide. Also called mercurous chloride.

[1670–80; < New Latin calomelas]

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Noun

1.

calomel - a tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic mercurous chloride black lotion, blackwash - a mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores atomic number 80, Hg, hydrargyrum, mercury, quicksilver - a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures chloride - any compound containing a chlorine atom

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