volatile salt
Britishnoun
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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 Darwin, Erasmus
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 Rhys, Ernest
Potassic Cyanide is an easily fusible and somewhat volatile salt, which, when fused, readily removes oxygen and sulphur from metallic compounds, and forms potassic cyanate or sulphocyanate as the case may be.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius
Having generally fastened the small bag which contained the volatile salt to a piece of brass wire in the preceding experiment, I commonly found the end of it corroded, and covered with a blue substance.
From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Priestley, Joseph
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 Aikman, Charles Morton
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