zinc sulphate

British  

noun

1. Also called: white vitriol.   zinc vitriol.  a colourless soluble crystalline substance usually existing as the heptahydrate or monohydrate: used as a mordant, in preserving wood and skins, and in the electrodeposition of zinc. Formula: ZnSO 4

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Example Sentences

The zinc sulphate spraying should be repeated for three consecutive days, then once every two weeks while danger of infantile paralysis prevails in the community.

From Time Magazine Archive

The reagents in common use are acetic acid; magnesium chloride, used for a glue employed by printers; hydrochloric acid and zinc sulphate; nitric acid and lead sulphate; and phosphoric acid and ammonium carbonate.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

Flour paste answers the same purpose, but needs zinc sulphate as a preservative.

From Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) by Williams-Ellis, Clough

Recent laboratory experiments, however, have indicated that zinc sulphate, an acid reacting material used for many years as a wash for concrete surfaces by Macnichol, actually has a strengthening effect upon cement and concrete surfaces.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Gardner, Henry A.

Sometimes the zinc ions which have got into solution meet with sulphate ions and form zinc sulphate molecules.

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John