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SILVER NITRATE

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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.

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• SILVER NITRATE (noun)

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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)

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SILVER NITRATE: related words searches

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