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A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.

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

A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card.

of bitumen; compounded with bitumen; containing bitumen. Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed. Milton. Bituminous coal, a kind of coal which yields, when heated, a considerable amount of volatile bituminous matter. It burns with a yellow smoky flame. -- Bituminous limestone, a mineral of a brown or black colo…

A hydrous sulphate of magnesium and sodium.

hemia. It is of variable composition, containing usually silica, lime, and potash, rarely soda, but no lead. It is often remarkable for beauty of color.

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.

One who bottles wine, beer, soda water, etc.

One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.

Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.

al crystals, also massive, generally of a yellow color, containing silica, alumina, lime, soda, and carbon dioxide.

The currantlike fruit of the African and Arabian caper (Capparis sodado).

own volume of it, and more than this under pressure, and in this state becomes the common soda water of the shops, and the carbonated water of natural springs. Combined with lime it constitutes limestone, or common marble and chalk. Plants imbibe it for their nutrition and growth, the carbon being retained and the oxyg…

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

A kind of fine, hard, white or mottled soap, made with olive and soda; also, a soap made in imitation of the above-described soap.

s point being in one plane. -- Caustic lime. See under Lime. -- Caustic potash, Caustic soda (Chem.), the solid hydroxides potash, KOH, and soda, NaOH, or solutions of the same. -- Caustic silver, nitrate of silver, lunar caustic. -- Caustic surface (Optics), a surface to which rays reflected or refracted by anothe…

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.