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sodium hyposulphite

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noun

  1. another name (not in technical usage) for sodium thiosulphate

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A ten per cent solution of sodium hyposulphite is a good remedy also.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson

Copper may be separated from its solutions by means of sodium hyposulphite.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius

Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens—of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.

From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)

It is distinguished by the solubility of its hydrate in ammonic carbonate, by not being precipitated by boiling with sodium hyposulphite, and by not being precipitated by ammonic sulphide from an ammonic carbonate solution.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius

Silverware is cleansed by rubbing with a solution of sodium hyposulphite.

From Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing by Brown, William N.

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