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a white poisonous soluble crystalline sublimate of mercury; used as a pesticide or antiseptic or wood preservative

see bichloride

See mercuric chloride.

[1800-10]

bichloride of mercury,

an extremely poisonous, white substance, used in taxidermy and in dyeing, and formerly used in solution as an antiseptic and treatment in medicine; mercuric chloride; corrosive sublimate. Formula: HgCl₂