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Definition of Bitter salts
1. Noun. Hydrated magnesium sulfate that is taken orally to treat heartburn and constipation and injected to prevent seizures.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bitter Salts
Literary usage of Bitter salts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of the Prairies: Or, The Landscape Geology of North Dakota by Daniel Everett Willard (1907)
"This is because there are bitter "salts" in the water. Our common table salt is
what the chemist calls Sodium Chloride. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... rocks are rich in magnesia, a base which forms bitter salts), a rock belonging
to the ultrabasic group, and consisting mainly of ..."
3. The Principles of Chemistry by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev, George Kamensky (1902)
"mixed with the bitter salts of magnesium which, owing to their solubility and
the small amount in which they are present (less than 1 pc), only separate out ..."
4. Chemistry in Daily Life: Popular Lectures by Lassar Cohn (1896)
"These bitter salts are nothing else but salts of potash; and the immense deposits
of such salts have caused a great industry to spring up in that ..."
5. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1871)
"It neutralises acids, forming amorphous bitter salts. It dissolves in strong
nitric acid wth dark green, and in strong sulphuric acid with blue colour ..."
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