silver nitrate

1. 1.

   a nitrate used in making photographic emulsions; also used in medicine as a cautery and as a topical antibacterial agent

   Broadernitratecaustic

   Narrowerlunar caustic

Questions about silver nitrate

What does silver nitrate mean?

silver nitrate means "a nitrate used in making photographic emulsions; also used in medicine as a cautery and as a topical antibacterial agent".

Is silver nitrate a common word?

silver nitrate 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.