mercuric oxide

noun

, Chemistry.

1. a slightly crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous compound, HgO, occurring as a coarse, orange-red powder red mercuric oxide or as a fine, orange-yellow powder yellow mercuric oxide: used chiefly as a pigment in paints and as an antiseptic in pharmaceuticals.

mercuric oxide

noun

1. a soluble poisonous substance existing in red and yellow powdered forms: used as pigments. Formula: HgO Systematic namemercury(II) oxide

Example Sentences

One of my biggest coups was “getting ahold” of some very toxic mercuric oxide from the school lab.

From Scientific American

I kept “borrowing” more mercuric oxide, and cooking up a supply of the tiny globules until I had a quarter-size blob.

From Scientific American

CYANAMIDE, NC�NH2, the amide of normal cyanic acid, obtained by the action of ammonia on cyanogen chloride, bromide or iodide, or by the desulphurization of thio-urea with mercuric oxide; it is generally prepared by the latter process.

From Project Gutenberg

One of my biggest coups was “getting hold” of some very toxic mercuric oxide from the school lab.

From Scientific American

I kept “borrowing” more mercuric oxide, and cooking up a supply of the tiny globules until I had a quarter-size blob.

From Scientific American