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DOUBLE SALT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does double salt mean? 

DOUBLE SALT (noun)
  The noun DOUBLE SALT has 1 sense:

1. a solution of two simple salts that forms a single substance on crystallizationplay

  Familiarity information: DOUBLE SALT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DOUBLE SALT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A solution of two simple salts that forms a single substance on crystallization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("double salt" is a kind of...):

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

primary solid solution; solid solution (a homogeneous solid that can exist over a range of component chemicals; a constituent of alloys that is formed when atoms of an element are incorporated into the crystals of a metal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "double salt"):

alum; potash alum; potassium alum (a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum)

alum; ammonia alum; ammonium alum (a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum)

potassium sodium tartrate; Rochelle salt; Rochelle salts (a double salt used in Seidlitz powder; acts as a cathartic)

Paris green (a toxic double salt of copper arsenate and copper acetate)


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