volatile salt

British  

noun

1. another name for sal volatile

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volatile salt

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

Subsequently, Clayton "vomited him" every other day and made him take volatile salt of amber between vomitings.

From Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Thomas Proctor Hughes

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

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 David Nunes Carvalho

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