aluminium sulphate

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noun

a white crystalline salt used in the paper, textile, and dyeing industries and in the purification of water. Formula: Al 2 (SO 4) 3

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Words nearby aluminium sulphate

aluminite, aluminium, aluminium bronze, aluminium hydroxide, aluminium oxide, aluminium sulphate, aluminize, alumino-, aluminography, aluminosilicate, aluminosis

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How to use aluminium sulphate in a sentence

Or maybe he would just send round The Sulphate Strangler to do the dirty for him.
Dead Cool: Ian Dury|Simon Doonan|April 23, 2010|DAILY BEAST
By far the most important of the conjugate sulphates and representative of the group is potassium indoxyl sulphate.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Giles; aluminium and its bronze in 1864; the transfer process in 1856 by Tearne and Richmond.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
Is spring water fit for washing the iodized paper; if it contains either sulphate or bicarbonate of lime or muriate of soda?
Notes and Queries, Number 177, March 19, 1853|Various

Sulphate of Magnesia can be obtained at a low cost, and has been used as a manure in some instances with very marked success.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry|Thomas Anderson
It gave a bluish-black color with impure ferrous sulphate and a dark color with ferric chloride.
Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant: (Rhus Toxicodendron)|William Anderson Syme