What is the meaning of Calomel?

(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.
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MLAWebster's. "calomel" 27 May 2011. Web. 21 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/calomel/definitions/1983992>
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