Online Dictionary: translate word or phrase from Indonesian to English or vice versa, and also from english to english on-line.
Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: seidlitz powders (0.00867 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to seidlitz powders.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Seidlitz powders
Seidlitz powders
n : an effervescing salt containing sodium bicarbonate and
Rochelle salt and tartaric acid; used as a cathartic
[syn:
Seidlitz powder,
Rochelle powder]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Seidlitz powders
Seidlitz
\Seid"litz\, a.
Of or pertaining to Seidlitz, a village in Bohemia. [Written
also
Sedlitz.]
[1913 Webster]
Seidlitz powders, effervescing salts, consisting of two
separate powders, one of which contains forty grains of
sodium bicarbonate mixed with two drachms of Rochell? salt
(tartrate of potassium and sodium) and the other contains
thirty-five grains of tartaric acid. The powders are mixed
in water, and drunk while effervescing, as a mild
cathartic; -- so called from the resemblance to the
natural water of Seidlitz. Called also
Rochelle powders.
Seidlitz water, a natural water from Seidlitz, containing
magnesium, sodium, calcium, and potassium sulphates, with
calcium carbonate and a little magnesium chloride. It is
used as an aperient.
[1913 Webster]
Advertisement