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seignette salt

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Main Entry: Sei·gnette salt
Variant: or Seignette's salt /sen-'yet(s)-/
Function: noun
: ROCHELLE SALT
Seiágnette /se-nyet,/ Pierre (1660–1719), Frenchpharmacist. Seignette first prepared potassium sodium tartrates in 1672. Ten years later he introduced Seignette salt as a laxative.
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