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(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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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Calomel'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/calomel.html. 1828.
 
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