lunar caustic
Silver nitrate fused into a stick and used for cauterizing and as a disinfectant…Silver nitrate fused into a stick and used for cauterizing and as a disinfectant before modern antibiotics.
Meaning
1 senses(obsolete, uncountable)Silver nitrate fused into a stick and used for cauterizing and as a disinfectant before modern antibiotics.
Höllenstein
silver nitrate fused into sticks and formerly used as a caustic
Translations
1 languagesDeutsch
silver nitrate fused into a stick:
Origin
From lunar (“[alchemical] silver”) + caustic.From lunar (“[alchemical] silver”) + caustic.
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Synonyms
2 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable