pink salt
English edit
Noun edit
- (chemistry, dyeing) The double chlorides of (stannic) tin and ammonium, formerly much used as a mordant for madder and cochineal.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pink salt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)