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silver nitrate

DEFINITIONS OF: silver nitrate

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n a nitrate used in making photographic emulsions; also used in medicine as a cautery and as a topical antibacterial agent

Types:
lunar caustic
silver nitrate fused into sticks and formerly used as a caustic
Type of:
caustic
any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue
nitrate
any compound containing the nitrate group (such as a salt or ester of nitric acid)
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