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volatile salt

noun

  1. another name for sal volatile


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A loathsome volatile salt, extracted from human skulls, was forced into his mouth.

All these virtues may be said to be derived from the union of their balsamic oil and volatile salt.

And consisting much of a volatile salt, when that is fired out, make a light kind of cinders.

This is abundantly manifest in the Distillation of many animal Substances, which plentifully yield a volatile Salt.

The concrete volatile Salt, when collected, weighed two drams.

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