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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A salt or mineral, such as alum or dolomite, that has more than one type of cation or anion and forms when a solution of two simpler salts undergoes crystallization.
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- noun chemistry A
solid solution of two simplesalts , often in a definite proportion
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- noun a solution of two simple salts that forms a single substance on crystallization
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