hepar antimonii

English

Noun

hepar antimonii (uncountable)

  1. (chemistry, obsolete) A substance of a liver-brown colour obtained by fusing together antimony sulphide with alkaline sulphides, and consisting of sulphantimonites of the alkalis; liver of antimony.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hepar antimonii”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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