Glauber's Salt Definition

gloubərz
noun
Hydrated sodium sulfate, Na2SO410H2O, a crystalline salt used in medicine as a cathartic or diuretic, and in heating systems, etc.
Webster's New World
(inorganic chemistry) Sodium sulphate decahydrate.
Wiktionary

Origin of Glauber's Salt

  • From the surname of the German iatrochemist Johann Glauber, who manufactured sodium sulphate in 1656, and salt.

    From Wiktionary

  • After Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604–1668), German chemist

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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