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stan'nic chlo'ride
Chem.
a colorless fuming and caustic liquid, SnCl
4, soluble in water and alcohol, that converts with water to a crystalline solid: used for electrically conductive and electroluminescent coatings and in ceramics. Also called
tin chloride, tin tetrachloride. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.