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The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.

The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle.

mbustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt.

ng combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.

gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts, acids, and alkalies. In very moist air crystals of strontites deliquesce. Black.

capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as, deliquescent salts.

A melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist place; a liquid condition; as, a salt falls into a deliquium. [R.]

as, the determination of the ohm or of the wave length of light; the determination of the salt in sea water, or the oxygen in the air.

ain the presence, quantity, or amount of; as, to determine the parallax; to determine the salt in sea water.

moved and replaced with a paste, usually made from the yolk and mayonnaise, seasoned with salt and/or spices such as paprika.

made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consisting essentially of glycerin mixed with lead salts of the fat acids.

The salt-marsh terrapin of the Atlantic coast (Malacoclemmys palustris).

ing two acid hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic atoms or radicals, in forming salts; bibasic; -- said of acids, as oxalic or sulphuric acids. Cf. Diacid, Bibasic.

A salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of the acid radical to one of the base; -- called also bichromate.

of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it. -- Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium.

A salt of disulphuric or pyrosulphuric acid; a pyrosulphate.

, an unstable substance, H2S2O6, known only in its solutions, and in certain well-defined salts.

A medicine with diuretic properties. Diuretic salt (Med.), potassium acetate; -- so called because of its diuretic properties.

par with magnetic iron. By many authors it is considered equivalent to a coarse-grained basalt.

ee Duplex querela, under Duplex. -- Double refraction. (Opt.) See Refraction. -- Double salt. (Chem.) (a) A mixed salt of any polybasic acid which has been saturated by different bases or basic radicals, as the double carbonate of sodium and potassium, NaKCO3.6H2O. (b) A molecular combination of two distinct salts, a…