ALUM
\ˈaləm], \ˈaləm], \ˈa_l_ə_m]\
Definitions of ALUM
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- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum
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a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum
By Princeton University
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a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum
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a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.
By Oddity Software
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A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A double sulphate of aluminum and of an alkaline earth or ammonium; the potassium salt is official as alumen in the U.S.P., both the potassium and the ammonium salts in the B.P. Chemically, an alum is any one of the double salts formed by a combination of a sulphate of aluminum, iron, manganese, chromium, or gallium, on one side, with a sulphate of lithium, sodium, potassium, ammonium, caesium, or rubidium, on the other.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A double sulphate of alumina and potash, & c., a salt of great use in medicine and the arts.
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To impregnate with alum.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A name given to a class of double sulphates, resembling each other in chemical structure and in crystalline form. a. of the U. S. Ph. should contain not less than 99.5 per cent, of pure aluminum and potassium sulphate, AlK (SO4)2+12H2O, known also as potassa alum. [U. S. Ph., Br. Ph.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
Nearby Words
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