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ROCHELLE SALTS

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Dictionary entry overview: What does Rochelle salts mean?

• ROCHELLE SALTS (noun)
The noun ROCHELLE SALTS has 1 sense:

1. a double salt used in Seidlitz powder; acts as a cathartic

Familiarity information: ROCHELLE SALTS used as a noun is very rare.

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• ROCHELLE SALTS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A double salt used in Seidlitz powder; acts as a cathartic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

potassium sodium tartrate; Rochelle salt; Rochelle salts

Hypernyms ("Rochelle salts" is a kind of...):

double salt (a solution of two simple salts that forms a single substance on crystallization)

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