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Definition of Rochelle salts
1. Noun. A double salt used in Seidlitz powder; acts as a cathartic.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rochelle Salts
Literary usage of Rochelle salts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1897)
"The plaintiff, believing the drug to be Rochelle salts, dissolved two ... The drag
so administered by plaintiff was not Rochelle salts, but a drug ..."
2. The North American Arithmetic by Frederick Emerson (1851)
"Compute the duty on 4 casks of Rochelle salts, invoiced at $ 10 per cwt.; gross
weight of 1st cask 1 cwt. ..."
3. The North American Arithmetic by Frederick Emerson (1847)
"... casks of Rochelle salts, invoiced at $ 10 per cwt.; gross weight of 1st cask
1 cwt. 2qr. 12lb.; 2d. Icwt. 1 qr. 17lb.; 3d. 2 cwt. 3qr. 7lb.- 4th. 4 cwt. ..."
4. Laboratory Physics: A Students Manual for Colleges and Scientific Schools by Dayton Clarence Miller (1903)
"(b) Make a half-silvered mirror by the Rochelle-Salts process. 198. Brashear's
Process for Silvering Glass. — Mirrors for optical experiments are often made ..."
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