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salt of wormwood

salt of wormwood noun: potassium carbonate.

Noun

salt of wormwood (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) potassium carbonate

Questions about salt of wormwood

What does salt of wormwood mean?
Salt of wormwood means potassium carbonate.
What part of speech is salt of wormwood?
Salt of wormwood is a noun.

Words near salt of wormwood in the dictionary

  1. salt of the earth
  2. salt of tin
  3. salt of Venus
  4. salt of vitriol
  5. salt of wisdom
  6. salt of wormwood
  7. salt out
  8. salt pan
  9. salt pans
  10. salt pig
  11. salt pigs

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