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An explosive consisting of sodium nitrate, charcoal, sulphur, and petroleum.

fragrant herbs Calamintha Acinos and C. Nepeta. -- Wild basil, a plant (Calamintha clinopodium) of the Mint family.

btained from bile by the action of alcohol and ether. It is composed of a mixture of the sodium salts of the bile acids.

Goutweed (Ægopodium podagraria).

A hydrous sulphate of magnesium and sodium.

and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O. Borax bead. (Chem.) See Bead, n., 3.

plosive consisting essentially of nitroglycerin, wood meal, and some nitrate, as that of sodium.

Same as Anthodium.

A chalklike concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in and about the small joints, in the external ear, and in other situations, in those affected with gout; a tophus.

A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt). Chloride of ammonium, sal ammoniac. -- Chloride of lime, bleaching powder; a grayish white substance, CaOClcalcium hypochlorite. See Hypochlorous acid, under Hypochlorous. -- Mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate.…

Any salt of chlorous acid; as, chlorite of sodium.

A salt of cholic acid; as, sodium cholate.

n evergreen mosslike plant, much used in winter decoration. The best know species is Lycopodium clavatum, but other Lycopodia are often called by this name. The spores form a highly inflammable powder. -- Club root (Bot.), a disease of cabbages, by which the roots become distorted and the heads spoiled. -- Club topsa…

A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina.

A polymeric form of pyridine, C10H10N2, obtained as a colorless oil by the action of sodium on pyridine.

An aqueous solution of carbolic acid, borax, sodium bicarbonate, and glycerin, used as a spray in diseases of the nose and throat.

hich 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, as common alum, which consists of the sulphate of aluminium, and the sulphate of potassium or ammonium. -- Double shuffle, a low, noisy dance.…

A little, perennial, white, woolly plant (Leontopodium alpinum), growing at high elevations in the Alps.

hang, in effigy, to burn or to hang an image or picture of a person, as a token of public odium.

The sodium salt of a sulphonic acid of a naphthol, C10H5(OH)(NH2)SO3Na used as a developer.