| Glauber's salt |
(Na2SO4.10H2O) a colorless salt used as a cathartic
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| Glauber's salt |
Sodium sulfate is an important compound of sodium, widely used to make sodium sulfide for the Kroll process of paper pulpling. When anhydrous, it is a white crystalline solid of formula Na2SO4. The decahydrate, Na2SO4•10H2O, is also known as Glauber's salt, after Johann Glauber, who discovered it in the 17th century, or sal mirabilis. The white or colorless crystals were originally used as a laxative. ...
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