Rochelle salts
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Ro·chelle salt
or Ro·chelle salts (rə-shĕl′, rō-)n.
[After (La) Rochelle.]
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Noun | 1. | Rochelle salts - a double salt used in Seidlitz powder; acts as a cathartic double salt - a solution of two simple salts that forms a single substance on crystallization |
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