mercuric
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- a of or containing mercury
- Thus, when he found that a candle burned more brightly, and mice thrived, in the atmosphere created with his container of heated mercuric oxide, he thought this atmosphere was .
- Bichloride of mercury (corrosive mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate), deadly poison, is used to preserve wood and museum specimens, to kill germs, insects, rodents and .
- Another compound (mercuric bichloride) is a corrosive poison (PTI, March 7).