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Sulphite   Listen
noun
Sulphite  n.  
1.
(Chem.) A salt of sulphurous acid; called also sulfite.
2.
A person who is spontaneous and original in his habits of thought and conversation. (Archaic Slang) "A sulphite is a person who does his own thinking, he is a person who has surprises up his sleeve. He is explosive."





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"Sulphite" Quotes from Famous Books



... its fibre has been termed "bastose" by Cross and Bevan, who have investigated it. It is not identical with ordinary cellulose, for if we take a little of the jute, soak it in dilute acid, then in chloride of lime or hypochlorite of soda, and finally pass it through a bath of sulphite of soda, a beautiful crimson colour develops upon it, not developed in the case of cellulose (cotton, linen, etc.). It is certain that it is a kind of cellulose, but still not identical with true cellulose. All animal fibres, when burnt, emit a peculiar empyreumatic ...
— The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing - Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association • Watson Smith


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