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Spermaceti :: Spermaceti (n.) A white waxy substance obtained from cavities in the head of the sperm whale, and used making candles, oilments, cosmetics, etc. It consists essentially of ethereal salts of palmitic acid with ethal and other hydrocarbon bases. The substance of spermaceti after the removal of certain impurities is sometimes called cetin..

Base :: Base (n.) The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids..

Saponification :: Saponification (n.) The act, process, or result, of soap making; conversion into soap; specifically (Chem.), the decomposition of fats and other ethereal salts by alkalies; as, the saponification of ethyl acetate..

Citrate :: Citrate (n.) A salt of citric acid.

Lixivial :: Lixivial (a.) Impregnated with, or consisting of, alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; impregnated with a salt or salts like a lixivium..

Amphigen :: Amphigen (n.) An element that in combination produces amphid salt; -- applied by Berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium..

Ricinelaidin :: Ricinelaidin (n.) The glycerin salt of ricinelaidic acid, obtained as a white crystalline waxy substance by treating castor oil with nitrous acid..

Lixivited :: Lixivited (a.) Impregnated with salts from wood ashes.

Pertain :: Pertain (v. i.) To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant life..

Sulpho- :: Sulphite (n.) A salt of sulphurous acid.

Sal :: Sal (n.) Salt.

Morate :: Morate (n.) A salt of moric acid.

Pyroarsenate :: Pyroarsenate (n.) A salt of pyroarsenic acid.

Bullary :: Bullary (n.) A place for boiling or preparing salt; a boilery.

Muriatic :: Muriatic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sea salt, or from chlorine, one of the constituents of sea salt; hydrochloric..

Petre :: Petre (n.) See Saltpeter.

Pyromalate :: Pyromalate (n.) A salt of pyromalic acid.

Brine :: Brine (v. t.) To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay..

Cure :: Cure (v. t.) To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay..

Grain :: Grain (n.) Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.; hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc..

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