Usage of "corrosive sublimate"

Portuguese

Catalan

A white poisonous soluble crystalline sublimate of mercury; used as a pesticide or antiseptic or wood preservative.

Usage of corrosive sublimate in English

One method is dipping the potatoes in a solution of corrosive sublimate. 
 One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered 

But the doctors again declared the presence of corrosive sublimate and opium. 
 Derues / Celebrated Crimes 

I found, however, some corrosive sublimate tabloids in my leather medicine case. 
 Korea's Fight for Freedom 

We should have no hesitation in backing him against so much corrosive sublimate. 
 Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 

Dissolve eight corrosive sublimate tablets, also called bichloride, in a gallon of water. 
 Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ... 

The chloride is very poisonous, and is known as corrosive sublimate. 
 The Wonder Island Boys:  The Tribesmen 

Item, a folded paper containing two drachms of corrosive sublimate powdered. 
 Marquise Brinvillier / Celebrated Crimes 

Rats dislike creosote and corrosive sublimate, and as for human beings-- 
 The Witch of Prague: A Fantastic Tale 

I'll mix up some corrosive sublimate for you to wash those cuts with. 
 The Cruise of the Snark 

Next to corrosive sublimate in antiseptic value stand the salts of copper and zinc. 
 Forty Centuries of Ink / Or, A chronological narrative concernin... 

He gave me a little of it, and it proved to be corrosive sublimate. 
 The Naturalist in Nicaragua 

Solution of corrosive sublimate, from one to four grains to one ounce of water. 
 Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ... 

Too much care cannot be taken of corrosive sublimate, especially when children are about. 
 The American Frugal Housewife 

White arsenic, two ounces; lard, thirteen ounces; corrosive sublimate, one-fourth ounce; venetian red, one-fourth ounce. 
 Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful ... 

The arsenic and corrosive sublimate effloresced from the ties along the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. 
 Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 

Hands of the attendant should be washed in one to one thousand corrosive sublimate solution. 
 Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ... 