Word Meanings - SUBSULPHATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sulphate with an excess of the base.

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• SULPHATE
  A salt of sulphuric acid.
• EXCESS
  out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness;
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• HYPOSULPHATE
  A salt of hyposulphuric acid.
• BISULPHATE
  A sulphate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal sulphates; an acid sulphate.
• PERSULPHATE
  A sulphate of the peroxide of any base.
• PYROSULPHATE
  A salt of pyrosulphuric acid.
• THIOSULPHATE
  A salt of thiosulphuric acid; -- formerly called hyposulphite. Note: The sodium salt called in photography by the name sodium hyposulphite, being used as a solvent for the excess of unchanged silver chloride, bromide, and iodide on the sensitive
• DISULPHATE
  A salt of disulphuric or pyrosulphuric acid; a pyrosulphate. An acid salt of sulphuric acid, having only one equivalent of base to two of the acid.
• SUPERSULPHATE
  An acid sulphate.
• HYDROSULPHATE
  See HYDROSULPHURENT
• SODIUM SULPHATE
  A salt well known as a catharic under the name of Glauber's salt, which term is properly applied to the hydrate, Na2SO4.10H2O.
• SUBSULPHATE
  A sulphate with an excess of the base.