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Sodium sulphate   /sˈoʊdiəm sˈəlfˌeɪt/   Listen
Sodium sulphate

noun
1.
A solid white bitter salt used in manufacturing glass and paper and dyes and pharmaceuticals.  Synonym: sodium sulfate.






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"Sodium sulphate" Quotes from Famous Books



... inflection. : Potassium carbonate: slowly poisonous. Sodium nitrate, rapid inflection. : Potassium nitrate: somewhat poisonous. Sodium sulphate, moderately rapid inflection. : Potassium sulphate. Sodium phosphate, very rapid inflection. : Potassium phosphate. Sodium citrate, rapid inflection. : Potassium citrate. Sodium oxalate; rapid inflection. Sodium ...
— Insectivorous Plants • Charles Darwin

... of vitriol, as I have described it to you, is the first step in the Leblanc process. The next stage consists in the manufacture of sodium sulphate (salt-cake) and hydrochloric acid from the sulphuric acid and common salt; this is called the salt-cake process. The production of salt-cake or crude sodium sulphate is carried out in two stages. A large covered iron pan, called the decomposing pan or salt-cake pot, is ...
— The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing - Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association • Watson Smith

... hypochlorite to remove sulphur. Analytical details as to the efficiency of this process have not been given. During 1901 and 1902 Bullier and Maquenne patented a substance made by mixing bleaching-powder with sodium sulphate, whereby a double decomposition occurs, sodium hypochlorite, which is equally efficient with calcium hypochlorite as a purifying material, being produced together with calcium sulphate, which, being identical with plaster of Paris, ...
— Acetylene, The Principles Of Its Generation And Use • F. H. Leeds and W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

... parts of phenolsulphonic acid and 1 part of formaldehyde for sixteen hours, and was then completely penetrated; it was subsequently transferred to a 10 B. liquor composed of chestnut and quebracho, being completely tanned in two days. The same result was obtained on adding sufficient sodium sulphate to the above mixture of phenolsulphonic acid and formaldehyde to raise ...
— Synthetic Tannins • Georg Grasser

... invisible load which it carries in solution, supplied chiefly by springs but also in part by the run-off and from the solution of the rocks of its bed. More than half the dissolved solids in the water of the average river consists of the carbonates of lime and magnesia; other substances are gypsum, sodium sulphate (Glauber's salts), magnesium sulphate (Epsom salts), sodium chloride (common salt), and even silica, the least soluble of the common rock-making minerals. The amount of this invisible load is surprisingly large. The Mississippi, for example, transports each year 113,000,000 ...
— The Elements of Geology • William Harmon Norton



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