sal

Salt.

A large gregarious tree, Shorea robusta, natural order Dipterocarpeæ, of northern India.

Salt: a word much used by the older chemists and in pharmacy.

An East Indian timber tree (Shorea robusta), much used for building purposes. It is of a light brown color, close-grained, heavy, and durable.

Salt.

an impure potassium carbonate obtained from the ashes of wormwood (Artemisia Absinthium).

salt of sorrel.

See Alembroth.

ammonium chloride, NH4Cl, a white crystalline volatile substance having a sharp salty taste, obtained from gas works, from nitrogenous matter, etc. It is largely employed as a source of ammonia, as a reagent, and as an expectorant in bronchitis. So called because originally made from the soot from camel’s dung at the temple of Jupiter Ammon in Africa. Called also muriate of ammonia.

Epsom salts.