silver nitrate

Noun
  1. A nitrate used in making photographic emulsions;
    Also used in medicine as a cautery and as a topical antibacterial agent (synset 115038737)
    is a 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)
    subtypes: lunar caustic - silver nitrate fused into sticks and formerly used as a caustic
    substance meronym: 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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