volatile salt
noun
another name for sal volatile
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How to use volatile salt in a sentence
A loathsome volatile salt, extracted from human skulls, was forced into his mouth.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayAll these virtues may be said to be derived from the union of their balsamic oil and volatile salt.
A Treatise on Foreign Teas | Hugh SmithAnd consisting much of a volatile salt, when that is fired out, make a light kind of cinders.
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne | Thomas BrowneThis is abundantly manifest in the Distillation of many animal Substances, which plentifully yield a volatile salt.
Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665 | Nathaniel HodgesThe concrete volatile salt, when collected, weighed two drams.
Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry, 5th ed. | Pierre Joseph Macquer
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