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Rochelle salts

Rochelle salts is the plural of Rochelle salt.

Meaning of Rochelle salt

Noun

Rochelle salt (plural Rochelle salts)

  1. The double salt potassium sodium tartrate tetrahydrate (KNaC₄H₄O₆·4H₂O), used for various scientific and medical purposes.
    • In fact, at the current state of knowledge and technology, probably only the simplest of the structures she worked on in Cambridge, Rochelle salt, could have been fully solved at the time.1998, Georgina Ferry, Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life
    Synonyms:
    Seignette salt

Questions about Rochelle salts

What is Rochelle salts the plural of?
Rochelle salts is the plural of Rochelle salt.

Words near Rochelle salts in the dictionary

  1. Rochell
  2. Rochelle
  3. Rochelle powder
  4. Rochelle powders
  5. Rochelle salt
  6. Rochelle salts
  7. Rochells
  8. rocher
  9. Rocherlea
  10. rochers
  11. roches

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