sulphite
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Generally though, the sulphite content is higher in sweet white wines rather than reds.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2023
From sulphite liquor, in the course of a decade, Chemist Howard and his helpers drew a reddish-brown goo: lignin.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rest comes out as a waste sulphite liquor,* a sirupy fluid.
From Time Magazine Archive
Upshot was that Union Bag's sulphite pulp plants had to be scrapped.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hence the neutral salt in which the metal is least oxydated must be named sulphite, and that in which it is fully oxydated must be called sulphat.
From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine
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