old name for mercurous chloride, 1670s, from French calomel, supposedly (Littré) from Greek kalos "fair" (see Callisto) + melas "black;" but as the powder is yellowish-white this seems difficult. "It is perhaps of significance that the salt is blackened by ammonia and alkalis" [Flood].
双语例句
1. The calomel electrode has a small pinhole opening or wick.
甘汞电板上有一个针孔或砂芯.
来自辞典例句
2. We have the saturated calomel electrode.
我们得到饱和甘汞电极.
来自辞典例句
3. Already the hospitals were worrying about the scarcity of quinine, calomel, opium, chloroform and iodine.
各个医院已经在为缺乏奎宁 、 甘汞 、 鸦片 、 哥罗仿、碘酒等等而发愁.
来自飘（部分）
4. Besides carsickness I had frequent called bilious attacks , which elicited a course of twelve calomel tablets.
