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A chemical agent that causes blistering
Answer for the clue "A chemical agent that causes blistering ", 8 letters:
vesicant
Word definitions for vesicant in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a blistering agent," 1660s, from Medieval Latin vesicantem (nominative vesicans ), present participle of vesicare , from vesica "a bladder, a blister" (see ventral ). From 1826 as an adjective.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Causing blistering to the skin. n. Any material that causes blisters upon contact with the skin.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. causing blisters [syn: vesicatory ] n. a chemical agent that causes blistering [syn: vesicatory ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vesicant \Ves"i*cant\, n. [L. vesica blister: cf. F. v['e]sicant.] (Med.) A vesicatory.
Usage examples of vesicant.
He was afraid the gas might be dichlorethyl sulphide or some other form of vesicant which would affect him through the skin pores.
Somebody on this planet had a gas which was a regurgitant, a sternutatory and a vesicant all in one.
Then there are disabling gases - emetics, vesicants, strangulants and so forth - which have the drawback that they don't dilute so fast and may all too easily affect the user as well as the target.