polychrest salt

English

Noun

polychrest salt (usually uncountable, plural polychrest salts)

1. (obsolete, medicine, chemistry) potassium sulfate obtained by fusing niter with sulfur

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “polychrest salt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)