nitrate of silver

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nitrate of silver - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Nitrate \Ni"trate\, n. [Cf. F. nitrate.] (Chem.)
     A salt of nitric acid.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Nitrate of silver, a white crystalline salt (AgNO3), used
        in photography and as a cauterizing agent; -- called also
        lunar caustic, and more commonly called silver  nitrate
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        [1913 Webster +PJC]