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Epsom salts   /ˈɛpsəm sɔlts/   Listen
Epsom salts

noun
1.
Hydrated magnesium sulfate that is taken orally to treat heartburn and constipation and injected to prevent seizures.  Synonym: bitter salts.
2.
(used with a singular noun) hydrated magnesium sulfate used as a laxative.





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... its bed. More than half the dissolved solids in the water of the average river consists of the carbonates of lime and magnesia; other substances are gypsum, sodium sulphate (Glauber's salts), magnesium sulphate (Epsom salts), sodium chloride (common salt), and even silica, the least soluble of the common rock-making minerals. The amount of this invisible load is surprisingly large. The Mississippi, for example, transports each year 113,000,000 tons of ...
— The Elements of Geology • William Harmon Norton


Words linked to "Epsom salts" :   physic, plural, aperient, plural form, purgative, magnesium sulfate, cathartic


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