Epsom salt


noun
  1. 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 of Epsom salt

1
1760–70; after Epsom; so called from its presence in the local mineral water

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How to use Epsom salt in a sentence

  • Carbolic Acid … liquid … oil … sweet oil … castor oil … aperient … Epsom Salts … white … white of egg.

    Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
  • It consists of the following: One part epsom salts, two parts glycerine, and three parts soap suds.

    The Mother and Her Child | William S. Sadler
  • Two ounces citric acid, one ounce tartaric acid, one half ounce epsom salts, five pounds white sugar.

  • He hez been takin epsom salts and epecac; and one is workin up, and the other is workin down.

    Swingin Round the Cirkle. | Petroleum V. Nasby
  • Take a dose of epsom salts, castor oil, or cascara sagrada, then regulate your diet.

    Supreme Personality | Delmer Eugene Croft