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English
Etymology
See Luna (“silver in alchemy”) + caustic.
Noun
lunar caustic (uncountable)
- (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.
Translations
silver nitrate fused into a stick