mercurous chloride

1. 1.

   a tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic

   Synonymscalomel

   Broaderchloride

Questions about mercurous chloride

What does mercurous chloride mean?

mercurous chloride means "a tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic".

What is another word for mercurous chloride?

Close synonyms include calomel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mercurous chloride a common word?

mercurous chloride is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.