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Definition of Rochelle salt
1. Noun. A double salt used in Seidlitz powder; acts as a cathartic.
Definition of Rochelle salt
1. Noun. (inorganic compound) The double salt potassium sodium tartrate that is used as a cathartic ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Rochelle salt
1. KNaC4H4O6;a mild saline cathartic, used as an ingredient in compound effervescent powders. Synonym: Rochelle salt, Seignette's salt, sodium potassium tartrate. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rochelle Salt
Literary usage of Rochelle salt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"Expts. were made with rochelle salt. If much of this salt be added to a chrome
liquor, ... Immediately after rochelle salt has been adulto a chrome liquor, ..."
2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1884)
"rochelle salt and iodine locally. Pot Mixed treatment and blister. ... rochelle salt
rochelle salt rochelle salt. rochelle salt and iron and quinine. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1905)
"... AND rochelle salt. (PLATES I.-II.) BY WE ADENEY, D.Sc., Curator and Examiner
in Chemistry in the Royal University of Ireland. Read DECEMBER 12, 1904. ..."
4. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1856)
"If the solution of rochelle salt contains tartrate of lime, the crystals are
turbid; but on heating the solution for some time to 50° — 60°, ..."
5. Elements of Natural Philosophy: Being an Experimental Introduction to the by Golding Bird (1848)
"This is beautifully shown in sections of the rochelle salt, the potassio-tartrate
of soda. If a plate cut transversely to one of the axes of this salt, ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1883)
"For this purpose experiments were carefully performed in flasks containing the
rochelle salt, to which the nuclei of neutral sodium ..."
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