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PRONUNCIATION OF MICROCOSMIC SALT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MICROCOSMIC SALT

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WHAT DOES MICROCOSMIC SALT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Microcosmic salt

Microcosmic salt is a salt found in urine with the formula NaHPO4. In the mineral form, microcosmic salt is called stercorite. The first extraction of pure phosphorus came from this salt, when Hennig Brandt attempted to extract gold from urine. Microcosmic salt is used in the laboratory as an essential ingredient of the microcosmic salt bead test for identification of metallic radicals on the basis of the color they produce in oxidising or reducing flame, in hot or cold condition. Microcosmic salts form a tetrahydrate.

Definition of microcosmic salt in the English dictionary

The definition of microcosmic salt in the dictionary is a white soluble solid obtained from human urine; ammonium sodium hydrogen phosphate. It is used as a flux in bead tests on metal oxides.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE MICROCOSMIC SALT

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Synonyms and antonyms of microcosmic salt in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «microcosmic salt» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MICROCOSMIC SALT

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Translator English - Chinese

微观盐
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la sal de fósforo
570 millions of speakers

English

microcosmic salt
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

microcosmic नमक
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الملح المصغر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

микрокосмический соль
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sal microcósmico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মাইক্রোস্কমিক লবণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sel microcosmique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Garam mikrokosma
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Phosphorsalz
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Translator English - Japanese

小宇宙塩
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Translator English - Korean

소우주 소금
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Uyah microcosmic
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Translator English - Vietnamese

muối vi mô
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நுண்ணுயிர் உப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मायक्रोस्कॉमिक मीठ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Mikrokozmik tuz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sale microcosmico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mikrokosmiczna sól
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мікрокосмічну сіль
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sare microcosmic
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

μικροκοσμική αλάτι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

mikrokosmiese sout
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

cosmic salt
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

mikrokosmiske salt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of microcosmic salt

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MICROCOSMIC SALT»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MICROCOSMIC SALT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about microcosmic salt

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MICROCOSMIC SALT»

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A Dictionary of Chemistry on the Basis of Mr Nicholson's ... ...
If to a glass formed of this acid and microcosmic salt a little borax beaddcd, and the mixture fused in the crterior flame, the colour becomes instantly reddish- brown; in the interior flame the black particles are also separated, but in smaller ...
Andrew Ure, 1821
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A dictionary of chemistry and mineralogy: with their ...
Oxide of Manganese gives with microcosmic salt, in the exterior flame, a fine amethyst colour, which disappears in the interior flame. With horax it gives a yellowish hyacinth-red glass. When the manganese, from its comhination with iron, ...
Andrew Ure, William Nicholson, 1835
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A Dictionary of Chemistry, on the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's: ...
With microcosmic salt it forms in the interior flame a pure blue glass, without any violet tinge; in the exterior flame this colour disappears, and re-appears again in the interior. With borax, in the internal flame, and in small proportions it forms a ...
Andrew Ure, Robert Hare, 1821
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The Use of the Blowpipe in the Qualitative and Quantitative ...
This precipitate is to be separated by filtration, and examined, without being edulcorated, with microcosmic salt, either on a platinum wire or charcoal. If the quantity be so small that no violet color is imparted to the microcosmic salt, the operator ...
Carl Friedrich Plattner, Sheridan Muspratt, 1850
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A dictionary of chemistry: on the basis of Nicholson's
If to a glass formed of this acid and microcosmic salt a little borax be added, and the mixture fused in the exterior flame, the colour becomes instantly reddish- brown ; in the interior flame the black particles are also separated, but in smaller  ...
A. Ure, 1821
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Annals of Philosophy
It does not effervesce with microcosmic salt as calcareous spar does, nor with borax as is the case with gypsum. 5. It dissolves very slowly, and without any effervescence in acids, as in sulphuric and nitric acids. If concentrated sulphuric acid ...
Thomas Thomson, Richard Phillips, Edward William Brayley, 1820
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Chemical Recreations: A Compendium of Experimental Chemistry
When metallic oxides are fused with microcosmic salt, the resulting bead is exposed alternately to the oxidating and reducing flame, because several metals which are susceptible of being oxidized in different degrees, communicate different ...
John Joseph Griffin, 1838
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Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, ...
Oxide of Uranium. The ellow oxide by i nition becomes Green or greenish-brown. ith microcosmic salt in the interior game it forms a clear ellow glass, the colour of which becomes more intense when co (1. If long exposed to the exterior flame, ...
Thomas Thomson, 1818
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A manual of chemistry; containing the principal facts of the ...
The glass then becomes opaque, and the, oxide is not reduced. Oxide QfTitcmium (99?) becomes yellowish when ignited in aspoon, and upon charcoal dark brown. With microcosmic salt it gives in the interior flame a fine violet- coloured glass, ...
William Thomas BRANDE, William James MACNEVEN, 1829
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A Dictionary of Chemistry and Mineralogy: With Their ...
Chrome, its green oxide, the form in which it most commonly occurs, and to which it is reduced by heating in the common air, exhibits the following properties : It is fusible with microcosmic salt, in the interior flame, into a glass which, at the ...
Andrew Ure, 1831

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MICROCOSMIC SALT»

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Phosphorus — the Wheel Turns
Growers would have their own esoteric recipes for fertilizer, some using Microcosmic salt, a salt found in urine with the formula (NH4)NaHPO4. «Science 2.0, Oct 12»

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