volatile salt
Britishnoun
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There is also very little, if any white cloud formed upon holding a piece of the volatile salt within the mouth of a phial containing smoking spirit of nitre.
From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Joseph Priestley
The nitrogen present in the manure, in different forms, is converted by the process of decomposition chiefly into ammonia, which, combining with the carbonic acid, forms carbonate of ammonia, a very volatile salt.
From Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman
This ammonia combines with part of the carbonic acid gas and forms carbonate of ammonia, a very volatile salt which rapidly changes to a vapor and is lost in the atmosphere.
From The First Book of Farming by Charles Landon Goodrich
All these virtues may be said to be derived from the union of their balsamic oil and volatile salt.
From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Hugh Smith
When the volatile salt has flown off, nothing but a caput mortuum remains.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys
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