| 单词 | sublimate of mercury |
| 释义 | > as lemmassublimate of mercury 1. Chiefly Chemistry and Medicine. More fully sublimate of mercury. Mercuric chloride, a toxic crystalline powder formerly used medicinally, esp. as an antiseptic or disinfectant. Also figurative, and in extended use: poison. Now chiefly historical.Also called corrosive sublimate, mercury sublimate.blue, sweet sublimate, etc.: see the first element. 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 the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > mercury > [noun] > compounds sublimate1543 precipitate1563 red mercury1582 quicksilver extinct1610 red precipitate1676 mercury fulminate1904 methylmercury1915 mercurochrome1919 mercurial1971 1543 B. Traheron Interpr. Straunge Wordes in tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. sig. BBv Sublimate. Argentum sublimatum is made of Chalcantum, quycksyluer, vynegre, and sal armoniake. 1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 10 in Jewell House Suger is a salt, Sublimate is a salt, Saltpeter is a salt. 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. vii. 26 White sublimate and arsnic..foster and hide a most burning and deadly fire. 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne ii. ii, in Wks. I. 540 Take a little sublimate, and goe out of the world, like a rat. View more context for this quotation 1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 132 Nay he became a poet, and would serve His pills of sublimate in that conserve. a1661 B. Holyday in tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 122 Sublimate makes black the teeth; Cerusse makes gray the hair. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Aqua Mercurialis, a preparation of Aqua-regia, and sublimate of mercury, with a little mercury, placed in a sand heat, till the solution of the mercury be made. 1772 W. Buchan Domest. Med. (ed. 2) xlvii. 636 The sublimate may likewise be given in form of pills. 1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain I. xvi. 344 I have more than once escaped..having the wine I drank spiced with sublimate. 1896 tr. Huysmans' En Route iii. 37 To cleanse it with the disinfectant of prayer and the sublimate of Sacraments. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 605 A tar bath, with 15 gr. of sublimate added. 1938 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 5 Nov. 966/2 A precipitation of the globulin fraction of the serum by a complex mercury salt (formed by mixing sublimate of mercury with sodium carbonate). 1995 O. Lee First Intermissions xviii. 195 Doria killed herself—quietly, swallowing three tablets of sublimate. 2007 U. Klein & W. Lefèvre Materials Eighteenth-century Sci. viii. 144 (caption) ‘Spiritus fumans Libavii’ (tin(IV) chloride), a smoky liquid, was also distilled from a mixture of tin with sublimate. < as lemmas |
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