double salt

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alum, potash alum, potassium alum

a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum

alum, ammonia alum, ammonium alum

a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum

Rochelle salt, Rochelle salts, potassium sodium tartrate

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

Paris green

a toxic double salt of copper arsenate and copper acetate

Type of:

salt

a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

primary solid solution, solid solution

a homogeneous solid that can exist over a range of component chemicals; a constituent of alloys that is formed when atoms of an element are incorporated into the crystals of a metal