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Glauber's salt, -s
Also Glauber salt, -s.
[Named after Johann Rudolf Glauber, a German chemist (1604–1668).]
Sulphate of sodium. (It was first artificially made by Glauber in 1656.)
1736Bailey Housh. Dict. 503 If drink become thick..put in a little fix'd nitre or Glaubers salt. 1761Sterne Let. 28 July, Lett. 1894 I. 52 If you had not [etc.]..the glauber-salts could not have hurt. 1789W. Buchan Dom. Med. (1790) 499 A dose or two of Glauber's salts, or some other cooling purge, may be taken. 1812Sir H. Davy Chem. Philos. 31 Glauber's salt, which consists of sulphuric acid and fossil alkali. 1856Farmer's Mag. Jan. 29, I have..tried Glauber salts in small doses of three ounces, with very great success. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. xii. 357 A solution of common sulphate of soda or Glauber salt. |