sal soda

American  

noun

1. sodium carbonate.

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sal soda British  

noun

1. the crystalline decahydrate of sodium carbonate

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Etymology

Origin of sal soda

late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75

Example Sentences

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sal soda

Once a week slop receptacles must be scalded with sal soda water and stood in the sun.

From The Complete Home by Laughlin, Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth)

This should consist of two parts sal soda; three parts borax; four parts castile or other hard soap: all to be melted together over a slow fire.

From Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making by Gibson, William Hamilton

Take one large spoonful of sal soda and one pound of chloride lime for thirty yards; dissolve in clean, soft water; rinse the cloth thoroughly in cold, soft water so that it may not rot.

From The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Gillette, F. L. (Fanny Lemira)

To do away with the odor which is apt to result from the use of oil as fuel, remove the burners, boil in sal soda water, dry thoroughly, and return to the stove.

From The Complete Home by Laughlin, Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth)

What the Ingredients Are of Soapine and Pearline.—They consist of partly effloresced sal soda mixed with half its weight of soda ash.

From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Burroughs, Barkham