volatile salt

British  

noun

1. another name for sal volatile

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volatile salt

The white is held in greatest esteem in physick, tho' it be opacous; when it is rubbed against anything, it is odoriferous, and it yields more volatile salt than the rest.

From Forty Centuries of Ink or, a chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. by Carvalho, David Nunes

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 Goodrich, Charles Landon

Externally the smoke of burnt feathers, oil of amber, volatile salt applied to the nostrils, blisters, sinapisms.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

And consisting much of a volatile salt, when that is fired out, make a light kind of cinders.

From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir

In the beginning of the experiment, a volatile salt was therefore collected in a dry form in the receiver, and afterwards dissolved into spirit.

From Experiments upon magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances by Black, Joseph