Corrosion
The act of eating or wearing away by slow degrees, as by the action of acids on metal and other substances.
Corrosive Sublimate is the chloride of mercury, and is formed by sublimation from a mixture of sulphate of the protoxide of mercury and common salt. It has a disagreeable, acrid taste, and is extremely poisonous. It is a white, transparent substance, dissolves in 16 parts of cold and 3 parts of boiling water, and crystallizes from a hot solution in long, white prisms.