microcosmic salt
Origin of microcosmic salt
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How to use microcosmic salt in a sentence
The oxide of niobium dissolved in a bead of microcosmic salt gives a bluish colour in the reducing flame.
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. | Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob BeringerHeat the substance with a bead of microcosmic salt or borax on a platinum wire in the oxidizing flame.
Many of the silicates give with borax a clear bead, while they form with microcosmic salt an opalescent one.
Fused with borax, soda, or microcosmic salt, they give a clear bead.
Baryta and its compounds produce the same reactions with microcosmic salt.
British Dictionary definitions for microcosmic salt
a white soluble solid obtained from human urine; ammonium sodium hydrogen phosphate. It is used as a flux in bead tests on metal oxides
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