volatile salt
Britishnoun
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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 Erasmus Darwin
The volatile salt should be put into a tin canister, with two pipes like horns from the top of it, one to suck the air from, and the other to admit it.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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
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
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
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