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Epsom salt

Epsom salt is the alternative form of Epsom salts.

Meaning of Epsom salts

Noun

Epsom salts (countable and uncountable, plural Epsom salts)

  1. magnesium sulfate, used as a laxative and in the preparation of tofu as a coagulator, and formerly as a medicated soaking solution.
    • And who but July would know […] that her back needed to be rubbed after she had drank^([sic]) her Epsom salts so as to release, into a belch or fart, the wind that so plagued her.2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), pages 71–72

Questions about Epsom salt

What is Epsom salt the alternative form of?
Epsom salt is the alternative form of Epsom salts.

Words near Epsom salt in the dictionary

  1. epsin
  2. epsins
  3. Epsom
  4. Epsom and Ewell
  5. Epsom Downs
  6. Epsom salt
  7. Epsom salts
  8. Epsomian
  9. Epsomians
  10. epsomite
  11. epsomites

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