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cal·o·mel

(kal'ō-mel),

Mild mercury chloride; mercury monochloride, protochloride, or subchloride; has been used as an intestinal antiseptic and laxative; replaced by safer agents.

Synonym(s): mercurous chloride, sweet precipitate

[Mediev. L., fr. G. kalos, beautiful, + melas, black]

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calomel

(kăl′ə-mĕl′, -məl)

A white or brown tasteless powder, Hg₂Cl₂, used as an insecticide and formerly as a purgative. Also called mercurous chloride.

calomel

(kal'o-mel) [Gr. kalos, beautiful, + melas, black]

A former name for mercury (I) chloride The term is still in use in “calomel electrode.”

Mercury (I) chloride.

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