Glauber's salt
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Glauber's salt
1730–40; named after J. R. Glauber (1604–68), German chemist
Example Sentences
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Glauber's salt is a natural sodium sulphate used in paper pulp and glass manufacturing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lately in northwestern North Dakota a party of Federal relief workers discovered deposits containing 20,000,000 tons of Glauber's salt, worth about $350,000,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
Neutral salts, as Glauber's salt, vitriolated tartar, sea-water, magnesia alba, soap.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
Glauber's salt and ½ lb. soap; after dyeing for one hour at the boil treat in a fresh boiling bath with 3 lb. copper sulphate.
From The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student by Beech, Franklin
Some salts, more particularly Glauber's salt and common salt, tend to throw some dye-stuffs out of the bath, and so the more there is used of them the deeper the shade produced on the fabric.
From The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student by Beech, Franklin
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