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signating, an acid (commonly called sulphocyanic acid) which frms a red color with ferric salts. [Obsoles.]

potassium carboxide and from certain quinones. It forms brilliant red, yellow, and purple salts.

The glycerin salt of ricinelaidic acid, obtained as a white crystalline waxy substance by treating castor oil with nitrous acid.

A salt of ricinoleic acid; -- formerly called palmate.

The glycerin salt of ricinoleic acid, occuring as a characteristic constituent of castor oil; -- formerly called palmin.

l faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis.

small spiral gastropods of the genus Rissoa, or family Rissoidæ, found both in fresh and salt water.

red dyestuff, used as a substitute for cochineal, archil, etc. It consists of the sodium salt of a complex azo derivative of naphtol.

A seaport town in France. Rochelle powders. Same as Seidlitz powders. -- Rochelle salt (Chem.), the double tartrate of sodium and potassium, a white crystalline substance. It has a cooling, saline, slightly bitter taste and is employed as a mild purgative. It was discovered by Seignette, an apothecary of Rochelle, and…

ax. See Cony, and Daman. -- Rock ruby (Min.), a fine reddish variety of garnet. -- Rock salt (Min.), cloride of sodium (common salt) occuring in rocklike masses in mines; mineral salt; salt dug from the earth. In the United States this name is sometimes given to salt in large crystals, formed by evaporation from sea…

a mixture of aniline and toluidine, as a colorless crystalline substance which forms red salts. These salts are essential components of many of the socalled aniline dyes, as fuchsine, aniline red, etc. By extension, any one of the series of substances derived from, or related to, rosaniline proper.

a mixture of phenol and cresol, as a dark red amorphous mass, C20H16O3, which forms weak salts with bases, and stable ones with acids. Called also methyl aurin, and, formerly, corallin.

Foul matter arising from degeneration; as, rust on salted meat.

A salt of rutic acid.

A salt of saccharic acid.

A salt of saccharinic acid.

pecifically, designating a complex acid not known in the free state but well known in its salts, which are obtained by boiling dextrose and levulose (invert sugar) with milk of lime.

A salt of saccharonic acid.

acid which is obtained from saccharone (a) by hydration, and forms a well-known series of salts.

A salt of saccholactactic acid; -- formerly called also saccholate. [Obs.] See Mucate.