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

Flush sink drain three times a week with boiling sal soda solution, one pint sal soda to three gallons of water.

From How Girls Can Help Their Country by Low, Juliette Gordon

The can itself must be scalded every day with sal soda water, thoroughly dried, and lined with thick, clean paper.

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

Large crystals of sal soda containing but 37% sodium carbonate are formed.

From Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by Thomssen, E. G.

If the parts are exceedingly painful, wash with a weak lie, or wood ashes, or sal soda.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George

I spray just before the bud swells, and after they bloom, with white arsenic; sal soda and lime for canker-worms and moths; think I have reduced the codling-moth.

From The Apple by Various