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Soap :: Soap (n.) A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf. Saponification. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not..

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

Sea Salt :: Sea salt () Common salt, obtained from sea water by evaporation..

Antiseptic :: Antiseptic (n.) A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona..

Solute :: Solute (a.) Soluble; as, a solute salt..

Salina :: Salina (a.) Salt works.

Flitch :: Flitch (n.) The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.

Mirabilite :: Mirabilite (n.) Native sodium sulphate; Glauber's salt.

Salt :: Salt (n.) Hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt..

Sulphone :: Sulphonate (n.) A salt of sulphonic acid.

Sulphocarbonic :: Sulphocarbonate (n.) A salt of sulphocarbonic acid; a thiocarbonate.

Saccharonate :: Saccharonate (n.) A salt of saccharonic acid.

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..

Pretzel :: Pretzel (n.) A kind of German biscuit or cake in the form of a twisted ring, salted on the outside..

Hydrosalt :: Hydrosalt (n.) An acid salt.

Hypo :: Hypo (n.) Sodium hyposulphite, or thiosulphate, a solution of which is used as a bath to wash out the unchanged silver salts in a picture..

Sea :: Sea (n.) An inland body of water, esp. if large or if salt or brackish; as, the Caspian Sea; the Sea of Aral; sometimes, a small fresh-water lake; as, the Sea of Galilee..

Salineness :: Salineness (n.) The quality or state of being salt; saltness.

Metantimonate :: Metantimonate (n.) A salt of metantimonic acid.

Element :: Element (n.) The elements of the alchemists were salt, sulphur, and mercury..

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