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| Oct 21, 2015 at 23:19 | history | edited | Adam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 21, 2015 at 22:35 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @Adam It peaks at the beginning of the 20th century, not the middle; and most of those hits are medical uses of "corrosive sublimate", an old name for mercury bichloride, used as a topical antiseptic. | |
| Oct 21, 2015 at 21:10 | comment | added | Adam | @inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M - Do you know why Sublimate might have been so much more popular mid-century? Was there some field of research into sublimation that was just opening up? | |
| Oct 21, 2015 at 21:09 | history | edited | Adam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 21, 2015 at 20:55 | comment | added | M.A.R. | Liquefy it is; they have to expect correction from the nitpicky me if they say melt. :) | |
| Oct 21, 2015 at 17:00 | comment | added | Adam | Huh - Sublimate used to be more widely used : books.google.com/ngrams/… | |
| Oct 21, 2015 at 16:54 | history | answered | Adam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |