Epsom salt

Epsom salt

noun
Often, Epsom salts. Chemistry, Pharmacology. hydrated magnesium sulfate, MgSO4⋅7H2O, occurring as small colorless crystals: used in fertilizers, the dyeing of fabrics, leather tanning, etc., and in medicine chiefly as a cathartic.

Origin:
1760–70; after Epsom; so called from its presence in the local mineral water
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the solid product resulting from the distillation of coal in an oven or closed chamber or by imperfect combustion, consisting principally of carbon
of or containing titanium, especially in the tetravalent state or three valence state
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