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Glauber''s Salts :: Glauber's salts () Sulphate of soda, a well-known cathartic. It is a white crystalline substance, with a cooling, slightly bitter taste, and is commonly called salts..

Subsextuple :: Subsesqui- () A prefix (also used adjectively) denoting the combination of constituents (especially electro-negative and electro-positive bodies) in the proportion of two to three; as, a subsesqui acetate, i. e., a salt having two equivalents of acetic acid to three of the base..

Salination :: Salination (n.) The act of washing with salt water.

Cryohydrate :: Cryohydrate (n.) A substance, as salt, ammonium chloride, etc., which crystallizes with water of crystallization only at low temperatures, or below the freezing point of water..

Osmite :: Osmite (n.) A salt of osmious acid.

Kainite :: Kainite (n.) A compound salt consisting chiefly of potassium chloride and magnesium sulphate, occurring at the Stassfurt salt mines in Prussian Saxony..

Soft :: Soft (superl.) Not tinged with mineral salts; adapted to decompose soap; as, soft water is the best for washing..

Tartronate :: Tartronate (n.) A salt of tartronic acid.

Oxamate :: Oxamate (n.) A salt of oxamic acid.

Metasilicate :: Metasilicate (n.) A salt of metasilicic acid.

Chlorite :: Chlorite (n.) Any salt of chlorous acid; as, chlorite of sodium..

Saline :: Saline (a.) Of the quality of salt; salty; as, a saline taste..

Whinstone :: Whinstone (n.) A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt..

Powder :: Powder (v. t.) To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat..

Secretage :: Secretage (n.) A process in which mercury, or some of its salts, is employed to impart the property of felting to certain kinds of furs..

Crepitate :: Crepitate (v.) To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap..

Fret :: Fret (n.) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.

Edulcorate :: Edulcorate (v. t.) To free from acids, salts, or other soluble substances, by washing; to purify..

Methionate :: Methionate (n.) A salt of methionic acid.

Bile :: Bile (n.) A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters..

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