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775 words match “SALT”

TARTRATE n.
A salt of tartaric acid.
TARTRONATE n.
A salt of tartronic acid.
TAUROCHOLATE n.
A salt of taurocholic acid; as, sodium taurocholate, which occurs in human bile.
TAUTOG n.
more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray. Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll. [Written also tautaug.]
TAW v.
ns of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
TELLURATE n.
A salt of telluric acid.
TELLURITE n.
A salt of tellurous acid.
TEREBATE n.
A salt of terebic acid.
TEREPHTHALATE n.
A salt of terephthalic acid.
TERTIARY a.
bjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary. (CH3)3C.OH.
TEST n.
ction of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt. Test act (Eng. Law), an act of the English Parliament prescribing a form of oath and declaration against transubstantiation, which all officers, civil and military, were formerly obliged to take within six months after their…
TETRATHIONATE n.
A salt of tetrathionic acid.
THALLATE n.
A salt of a hypothetical thallic acid.
THALLINE n.
aloid of the quinoline series, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C10H13NO, whose salts are valuable as antipyretics; -- so called from the green color produced in its solution by certain oxidizing agents.
THENCEFORTH adv.
From that time; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13.
THIOSULPHATE n.
A salt of thiosulphuric acid; -- formerly called hyposulphite.
THYMATE n.
A compound of thymol analogous to a salt; as, sodium thymate.
TIERCE n.
A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.
TIN n.
See Fuming liquor of Libavius, under Fuming. -- Grain tin. (Metal.) See under Grain. -- Salt of tin (Dyeing), stannous chloride, especially so called when used as a mordant. -- Stream tin. See under Stream. -- Tin cry (Chem.), the peculiar creaking noise made when a bar of tin is bent. It is produced by the grating…
TITANATE n.
A salt of titanic acid.
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