glauber's salt in English
noun
1
a crystalline hydrated form of sodium sulfate, used chiefly as a laxative.
Having experienced a mild diarrheal illness for several days, he had attempted to cure himself of this ailment that morning with a dose of Glauber's salts (sodium sulfate, similar to Epsom's salt), a laxative.
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1. The "Dover House" (in Dover, Massachusetts) was the first to use a Glauber's salt heating system, in 1948.
2. Two thirds of the world's production of the decahydrate (Glauber's salt) is from the natural mineral form mirabilite, for example as found in lake beds in southern Saskatchewan.