Definition of salt

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Salt (n.) Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt..

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Rhodizonic :: Rhodizonic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a colorless crystalline substance (called rhodizonic acid, and carboxylic acid) obtained from potassium carboxide and from certain quinones. It forms brilliant red, yellow, and purple salts..
Cyanate :: Cyanate (n.) A salt of cyanic acid.
Salted :: Salted (imp. & p. p.) of Sal.
Sulphotungstate :: Sulphostannic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphacid of tin (more exactly called metasulphostannic acid), which is obtained as a dark brown amorphous substance, H/SnS/, forming a well-known series of salts..
Osmiamate :: Osmiamate (n.) A salt of osmiamic acid.
Quinate :: Quinate (n.) A salt of quinic acid.
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..
Crocus :: Crocus (n.) A deep yellow powder; the oxide of some metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (Crocus of Mars or colcothar) thus produced from salts of iron, and used as a polishing powder..
Carbonate :: Carbonate (n.) A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc..
Alembroth :: Alembroth (n.) The salt of wisdom of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimulant..
Rhodanate :: Rhodanate (n.) A salt of rhodanic acid; a sulphocyanate.
Taurocholate :: Taurocholate (n.) A salt of taurocholic acid; as, sodium taurocholate, which occurs in human bile..
Cat-salt :: Cat-salt (n.) A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine..
Saline :: Saline (a.) A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.
Pyroantimonate :: Pyroantimonate (n.) A salt of pyroantimonic acid.
Calcified :: Calcified (a.) Consisting of, or containing, calcareous matter or lime salts; calcareous..
Xylate :: Xylate (n.) A salt of xylic acid.
Smeir :: Smeir (n.) A salt glaze on pottery, made by adding common salt to an earthenware glaze..
Abraum Salts :: Abraum salts (n.) A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.
Vifda :: Vifda (n.) In the Orkney and Shetland Islands, beef and mutton hung and dried, but not salted..
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