MAGNESIUM SULFATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does magnesium sulfate mean? 

• MAGNESIUM SULFATE (noun)
  The noun MAGNESIUM SULFATE has 1 sense:

1. a salt of magnesium

  Familiarity information: MAGNESIUM SULFATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAGNESIUM SULFATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A salt of magnesium

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("magnesium sulfate" is a kind of...):

sulfate; sulphate (a salt or ester of sulphuric acid)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "magnesium sulfate"):

bitter salts; Epsom salts (hydrated magnesium sulfate that is taken orally to treat heartburn and constipation and injected to prevent seizures)

 Context examples 

The spacecraft also found evidence for salty seas, likely containing the salt magnesium sulfate.

(Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice, NASA)

Magnesium sulfate would simply have leached into the ocean from rocks on the ocean floor, but sodium chloride may indicate the ocean floor is hydrothermally active.

(Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa, NASA)

Galileo's spectrometer found water ice and a substance that appeared to be magnesium sulfate salts (like Epsom salts).

(Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa, NASA)