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Word Meanings - EPSOMITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Native sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salt.

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  • SULPHATE
    A salt of sulphuric acid.
  • MAGNESIA
    A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide, and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See Magnesium.
  • NATIVE
    1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth. 2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances
  • NATIVE STEEL
    A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore.
  • EPSOM SALTS; EPSOM SALT
    Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certain minerals, as from siliceous hydrate
  • NATIVELY
    By natural or original condition; naturally; originally.
  • EPSOMITE
    Native sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salt.
  • NATIVENESS
    The quality or state of being native.
  • MAGNESIAN
    Pertaining to, characterized by, or containing, magnesia or magnesium. Magnesian limestone. See Dolomite.
  • ELIMINATIVE
    Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
  • NOMINATIVELY
    In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
  • EMANATIVE
    Issuing forth; effluent.
  • DOMINATIVE
    Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
  • REGNATIVE
    Ruling; governing.
  • COORDINATIVE
    Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.
  • DENOMINATIVE
    Connotative; as, a denominative name. 3. Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable. The least denominative part of time is a minute. Cocker. (more info) 1. Conferring a denomination or name.
  • GLUTINATIVE
    Having the quality of cementing; tenacious; viscous; glutinous.
  • CONGLUTINATIVE
    Conglutinant.
  • URINATIVE
    Provoking the flow of urine; uretic; diuretic. Bacon.
  • EMANATIVELY
    By an emanation.
  • ALTERNATIVENESS
    The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.
  • DESIGNATIVE
    Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
  • HYPOSULPHATE
    A salt of hyposulphuric acid.
  • GERMINATIVE
    Pertaining to germination; having power to bud or develop. Germinative spot, Germinative vesicle. Same as Germinal spot, Germinal vesicle, under Germinal.
  • BISULPHATE
    A sulphate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal sulphates; an acid sulphate.

 

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