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  2. Caustic pencil - Wikipedia

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    Typical caustic pencil with detail of dried, oxidized, and inactive chemical. A caustic pencil (or silver nitrate stick) is a device for applying topical medication containing silver nitrate and potassium nitrate, used to chemically cauterize skin, providing hemostasis or permanently destroying unwanted tissue such as a wart, skin tag, aphthous ulcers, or over-production of granulation tissue. [1]

  3. Silver nitrate - Wikipedia

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    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 a British surgeon into wounds in his arm resulting from the bite of a mad dog to ...

  4. Cauterization - Wikipedia

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    Cauterization (or cauterisation, or cautery) 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 undesired growth, or minimize other potential medical harm, such as infections when antibiotics are unavailable.

  5. The best cat nail trimmers, according to experts - AOL

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    Our experts also recommend Kwik Stop powder, styptic pencils or silver nitrate sticks, all of which promptly stop any bleeding in case you accidentally clip the nail too short.

  6. Medical uses of silver - Wikipedia

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    Silver nitrate is also used in certain laboratory procedures to stain cells. As it turns them permanently a dark-purple/black color, in doing so increasing individual cells' visibility under a microscope and allowing for differentiation between cells, or identification of irregularities. Silver is also used in bone prostheses and cardiac ...

  7. Wikipedia:Silver nitrate - Wikipedia

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    Silver nitrate is a salt of silver that is sometimes used by dentists as a caustic material to cauterize mouth sores, and has in the past been used by physicians for treating wounds. It may be an appropriate material to salt the earth after burying a monster that has been killed with silver bullets .

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