zinc-chloridehttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zinc-chloride_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezinc chloride, n.
First published 1921; not fully revised

zinc chloridenoun

  1. 1851–
    A white, crystalline, deliquescent solid, ZnCl2, used as a preservative, a flux, and in Leclanché cells.
    1. 1851
      ZnCl, 9ZnO..[is prepared] by precipitating aqueous zinc-chloride with an insufficient quantity of ammonia and filtering immediately.
      H. Watts, translation of L. Gmelin, Hand-book of Chemistry vol. V. xxviii. 32
    2. 1911
      Zinc chloride, ZnCl2, is produced by heating the metal in dry chlorine gas, when it distils over as a white translucent mass.
      Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII. 984/1
    3. 1981
      Zinc chloride, which is exceptionally soluble in water.., has a range of uses that extend from embalming, to fireproofing lumber, to the refining of petroleum.
      Brady & Holum, Fund. Chemistry xx. 700

Originally published as part of the entry for zinc, n.

zinc, n. was first published in 1921; not fully revised.