Definitions for: Calomel


[n] a tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic



Webster (1913) Definition: Cal"o*mel, n. [Gr. ????? beautiful + ????? black. So
called from its being white, though made from a black mixture
of mercury and corrosive sublimate. Cf. F. calom['e]las.]
(Chem.)
Mild chloride of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or
yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used
in medicine as a mercurial and purgative; mercurous chloride.
It occurs native as the mineral horn quicksilver.

Synonyms: mercurous chloride

See Also: atomic number 80, chloride, Hg, hydrargyrum, mercury, quicksilver

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