lunar caustic

English

Etymology

See Luna (“silver in alchemy”) + caustic.

Noun

lunar caustic (uncountable)

  1. (chemistry, obsolete) Silver nitrate fused into a stick and used for cauterizing.
    • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 78:
      However, the doctor soon relieved his sufferings, though the treatment was severe; nothing short of an application of lunar caustic allayed the inflammation.

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