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rican compound ascidian (Amoræcium stellatum) which forms large whitish masses resembling salt pork.

That which is added to any species of food, to give it a higher relish, as salt, spices, etc.; a condiment.

A salt of sebacic acid.

g been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary.

A process in which mercury, or some of its salts, is employed to impart the property of felting to certain kinds of furs. Ure.

to Seidlitz, a village in Bohemia. [Written also Sedlitz.] Seidlitz powders, effervescing salts, consisting of two separate powders, one of which contains forty grains of sodium bicarbonate mixed with two drachms of RochellRochelle powders. -- Seidlitz water, a natural water from Seidlitz, containing magnesium, sodium…

A salt of selenic acid; -- formerly called also seleniate.

A salt of selenious acid.

r arranged by an action originating in one's self or in itself. These molecular blocks of salt are self-posited. Tyndall.

An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.

A salt of silicic acid.

ous substance, Si(HO)4, very unstable and easily dried to silica, but forming many stable salts; -- called also orthosilicic, or normal silicic, acid.

A fluosilicate; a salt of silicofluoric acid.

eries of double acids of silicon and tungsten, known in the free state, and also in their salts (called silicotungstates).

A salt of sinapic acid.

rassica nigra, formerly Sinapis nigra) It resembles sinalbin, and consists of a potassium salt of myronic acid.

A salt glaze on pottery, made by adding common salt to an earthenware glaze.

as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like.

bining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf. Saponification. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent…

alled because formerly obtained from the ashes of sea plants and certain other plants, as saltwort (Salsola). See under Sodium. -- Soda fountain, an apparatus for drawing soda water, fitted with delivery tube, faucets, etc. -- Soda lye, a lye consisting essentially of a solution of sodium hydroxide, used in soap maki…