It was nearly a year ago when you handled this; but corrosive sublimate is always dangerous.
If you think those symptoms are bad, and that we do not use any medicine so lethal as corrosive sublimate and carbolic acid today, you'd better rethink the problem.
It is always advisable to use earthenware vessels; indeed, this is necessary, as corrosive sublimate acts upon metals.
Paste made with alum will keep about a fortnight, but can be kept longer by the addition of corrosive sublimate in the proportion of one part of corrosive sublimate to a thousand parts of paste.
From the vapour density and from the specific heats, it is further demonstrated that the molecule of corrosive sublimate, like that of chloride of ethylene, contains two atoms of chlorine.
Definition of corrosive sublimate in US English:
corrosive sublimate
noun
another term for mercuric chloride
Example sentencesExamples
Paste made with alum will keep about a fortnight, but can be kept longer by the addition of corrosive sublimate in the proportion of one part of corrosive sublimate to a thousand parts of paste.
From the vapour density and from the specific heats, it is further demonstrated that the molecule of corrosive sublimate, like that of chloride of ethylene, contains two atoms of chlorine.
It was nearly a year ago when you handled this; but corrosive sublimate is always dangerous.
If you think those symptoms are bad, and that we do not use any medicine so lethal as corrosive sublimate and carbolic acid today, you'd better rethink the problem.
It is always advisable to use earthenware vessels; indeed, this is necessary, as corrosive sublimate acts upon metals.