Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A salt of hyposulphuric acid, H2S2O6, now called
dithionic acid ; dithionate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A salt of hyposulphuric acid.
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- noun chemistry A
salt of hyposulphuric acid.
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Examples
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-- A blue bottle containing 160 grammes of a clear fluid with a slight black deposit, consisting of a mixture of equal parts of a 14 per cent. solution of sodic hyposulphate, and a 4 per cent. solution of lead acetate.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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The water was so warm that the gelatine frilled in spite of alum, and what was worse, when I put the negatives in the hyposulphate of soda they ran off their supports like so much hot starch.
Southern Arabia Mabel Bent
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Dissolve four ounces of hyposulphate of soda in one gallon of water and add corn meal to make a heavy dough, and give an ordinary feed of this twice a day for six days, and then once a week through the summer months.
One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed C. A. Bogardus
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I attribute the fading to the hyposulphate not being got rid of; and the question is, Can the picture he restored?
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By using, however, instead of the iodide of potassium, a weak solution of ammonia, as recommended by Mr. Hunt, a less degree of intensity may be produced again a less intensity by hyposulphate of soda and a less degree again, but still a slight darkening, by pouring on the bichloride and pouring it off at once before the whitening commences.
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