SILVER NITRATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does silver nitrate mean?
• SILVER NITRATE (noun)
The noun SILVER NITRATE has 1 sense:
1. a nitrate used in making photographic emulsions; also used in medicine as a cautery and as a topical antibacterial agent
Familiarity information: SILVER NITRATE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SILVER NITRATE (noun)
Meaning:
A nitrate used in making photographic emulsions; also used in medicine as a cautery and as a topical antibacterial agent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("silver nitrate" is a kind 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))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "silver nitrate"):
lunar caustic (silver nitrate fused into sticks and formerly used as a caustic)
Holonyms ("silver nitrate" is a substance of...):
emulsion; photographic emulsion (a light-sensitive coating on paper or film; consists of fine grains of silver bromide suspended in a gelatin)