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a colorless caustic liquid made by treating tin with chlorine

: a mobile liquid compound SnCl₄ that fumes in moist air, that is made usually by the action of chlorine on tin (as in recovering tin from scrap), that when mixed with a little water solidifies to a soft crystalline mass of the pentahydrate and with more water slowly hydrolyzes yielding hydrochloric acid, and that is used chiefly in making other tin compounds but was formerly used in weighting silk and as a mordant and in producing military smoke screens — called also tin tetrachloride

a colorless fuming and caustic liquid, SnCl₄, 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.

stannic chloride,

a colorless, caustic liquid made from tin and chlorine, used as a dye and color brightener, for coating objects, and as a bleaching agent. Formula: SnCl₄