Definition of Salify

1. v. t. To combine or impregnate with a salt.

Definition of Salify

1. Verb. (dated chemistry) To react so as to form a salt ¹

2. Verb. (dated chemistry transitive) To combine or impregnate with a salt. ¹

3. Verb. (dated chemistry transitive) To form a salt with; to convert into a salt. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Salify

1. to combine with a salt [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]

Medical Definition of Salify

1. To combine or impregnate with a salt. To form a salt with; to convert into a salt; as, to salify a base or an acid. Origin: F. Salifier; from L. Sal salt + -ficare (only in comp) to make. See -fy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Salify

saliences
saliencies
saliency
salient
salient(ip)
salient angle
salientian
salientians
saliently
salients
saliferous
salifiable
salification
salified
salifies
salify (current term)
salifying
saligenin
saligot
saligots
salimeter
salimeters
salimetries
salimetry
salina period
salinas
salinate
salinated
salinates
salinating

Literary usage of Salify

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Chemical Terms by James Fitton Couch (1920)
"A prefix which indicates a salt, as in sal-ammoniac. salify. To convert into a salt, as to salify a base. Substances which can react to form salts are ..."

2. A Dictionary of Chemical Terms by James Fitton Couch (1920)
"Sal. A prefix which indicates a salt, as in sal-ammoniac. salify. To convert into a salt, as to salify a base. Substances which can react to form salts are ..."

3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1870)
"... 4000 parts of cold water, hence the tastelessness of ' sweet quinine,' and its bitterness with acid or alcoholic fluids which salify and dissolve it. ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1876)
"Doubtless, the best results in these cases would follow the use of measured quantities of standard solutions of the acid employed to salify and the alkali ..."

5. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in by Elisha Hammond, Charles Petersdorff (1831)
"... for the payment thereout of both ihe délits, will, upon i's equitable principles, salify the ..."

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