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Mild chloride of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in medicine as a mercurial and purgative; mercurous chloride. It occurs native as the mineral horn quicksi…

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  1. n. Mild chloride of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in medicine as a mercurial and purgative; mercurous chloride. It occurs native as the mineral horn quicksilver.
  2. n. a tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic
  3. Mild chloride of mercury, Hg
  4. n. a tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic