silver nitrate
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1. a nitrate used in making photographic emulsions; also used in medicine as a cautery and as a topical antibacterial agent (noun.substance)
hypernym | : | caustic, |
definition | : | any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue (noun.substance) |
hypernym | : | nitrate, |
definition | : | any compound containing the nitrate group (such as a salt or ester of nitric acid) (noun.substance) |
hyponym | : | lunar caustic, |
definition | : | silver nitrate fused into sticks and formerly used as a caustic (noun.substance) |
substance meronym | : | emulsion, photographic emulsion, |
definition | : | a light-sensitive coating on paper or film; consists of fine grains of silver bromide suspended in a gelatin (noun.artifact) |
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