Silver nitrate
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Silver nitrate is an inorganic compound with chemical formula AgNO3. It is a colorless solid that is a precursor to many other silver compounds. Silver nitrate is highly soluble in water but is poorly
Sample of silver nitrate
Skin stained by silver from handling silver nitrate
Micrograph showing a silver nitrate (brown) marked surgical margin.
Cauterization
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Cauterization is a medical practice or technique of burning a part of a body to remove or close off a part of it. It destroys some tissue in an attempt to mitigate bleeding and damage, remove an undes
Silver nitrate
…neonatorum. (Modern antibiotics are now used instead). Fused silver nitrate, shaped into sticks, was traditionally called "lunar caustic". It is used as a cauterizing agent, for example to remove granulation tissue around a stoma. General Sir James Abbott noted in his journals that in India in 1827 it was infused by…
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