Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

mercury bichloride

mercury bichloride , noun

the compound (HgCl2) consisting of two atoms of chlorine united with one atom of mercury. Also called bichloride of mercury, mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate, and mercury perchloride. It is used as “a topical antiseptic and disinfectant for inanimate objects”. — Stedman's 25th