单词 | common alum |
释义 | > as lemmascommon alum 1. An astringent mineral salt, typically occurring as colourless or whitish crystals, that is used as a mordant for dyeing, in tanning, for sizing paper and fireproofing materials, in water purification, and in medicine (esp. as a styptic); = potash alum n. at potash n. Compounds 2; also common alum.Alum is a hydrated double sulphate of aluminium and potassium, KAl(SO4)2·12H2O; crystal system, cubic. It occurs naturally in alum shales and other rocks; cf. alunite n.burnt, roche, rock, Roman, stone alum, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphates > [noun] > alum aluma1398 alumen?a1425 the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > salts > [noun] > salts named by atomic number > sulphates or sulphites > other sulphates aluma1398 aphronitrea1398 white vitriol1676 oxysulphate1802 hyposulphate1819 sulphur salt1836 potash alum1837 hepar1866 kainite1868 kalinite1868 nickel sulphate1868 trisulphate1880 trisulphonate1892 thalline sulphate1899 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. liii. 1318 Som cometh of veynes of þe erþe, as..water nitrum and alime [L. aqua..aluminosa]. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1035 Þe clay þat clenges þerby [sc. by the Dead Sea] arn corsyes strong, As alum and alkaran, þat angre arn boþe. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Ellesmere) (1875) l. 813 Tartre Alum glas [c1415 Corpus Oxf. alym, c1415 Lansd. Alumglasse, c1425 Petworth alem, c1440 Lichfield alumglas]. ?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 66 (MED) Aboute þat see [sc. the Dead Sea] groweth moche Alom. 1453 in J. A. Kingdon Arch. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1886) II. 323 (MED) Alum, foyle or rooch, þe bale..iiij d. ?a1500 in G. Henslow Med. Wks. 14th Cent. (1899) 1 Þe maner of steynyng of lynne cloþ..to viii ellyn of cloþ take a pownd of alyme. 1551 W. Turner Herball (1568) ii. 123 Layed to with honey and allome. 1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. Biiv Cleare and smothe lyke glas or alme. 1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia i. sig. B2 The same earth doth also yeelde..nothing so plentifully as the common Allum. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxvi. lii. 558 The best and principall alume..is brought out of the Island Melos. 1621 P. Heylyn Microcosmus 89 Transporting into other places Rice..Veluets, Satins,..Allom, Glasses, &c. 1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xxii. 437 A lotion with Honey, Alome, and White wine. 1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 106 Alum is dug out of the earth as we find it in the Shops. 1728 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 2) 311 After the first Scabs are well off, anoint the Face..with the following Ointment. Beat common Alum very fine, and sift it thro' a lawn Sieve, and mix it with Oil, like a thick Cream. 1768 J. Boswell Acct. Corsica (ed. 2) i. 52 There are also mines of allum. 1815 R. Bakewell Introd. Geol. (ed. 2) viii. 201 The sulphuric acid uniting with the alumine, forms the well-known salt called alum. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud i. x, in Maud & Other Poems 6 While chalk and alum and plaster are sold to the poor for bread. 1885 A. Watt Art of Leather Manuf. 39 When tawed, or prepared with alum and salt, they [sc. sheepskins] form what is termed white leather. 1940 G. H. J. Adlam & L. S. Price Higher School Certificate Inorg. Chem. (ed. 2) xxxv. 278 A solution of aluminium sulphate or common alum in aqueous solution has a strongly acid reaction. 1954 J. Corbett Temple Tiger 172 I attended to the skins, re-pegging them on fresh ground and rubbing wood ashes and powdered alum on the damp parts. 1992 Eng. Today Jan. 41/1 The alum reacts with moisture in the air to break down the cellulose wood fibres that give paper its structural strength. 2008 P. Abrahams Beneath Surface 109/1 Often opaque vermilion had a glaze of red lake (a translucent red dye extracted from cochineal beetles or lac insects, fixed on alum and mixed with oil). < as lemmas |
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