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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ROCHELLE SALT

Named after La Rochelle, French port.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ROCHELLE SALT

Rochelle salt play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROCHELLE SALT

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WHAT DOES ROCHELLE SALT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Potassium sodium tartrate

Potassium sodium tartrate is a double salt first prepared by an apothecary, Pierre Seignette, of La Rochelle, France. As a result the salt was known as Seignette's salt or Rochelle salt. Rochelle salt is not to be confused with rock salt, which is simply the mineral form of sodium chloride. Potassium sodium tartrate and monopotassium phosphate were the first materials discovered to exhibit piezoelectricity. This property led to its extensive use in "crystal" gramophone pick-ups, microphones and earpieces during the post-War consumer electronics boom of the mid-20th Century. Such transducers had an exceptionally high output with typical pick-up cartridge outputs as much as 2 volts or more. Rochelle salt is deliquescent so any transducers based on the material deteriorated if stored in damp conditions. It is a colorless to blue-white salt crystallizing in the orthorhombic system. Its molecular formula is KNaC4H4O6·4H2O. It is slightly soluble in alcohol but more completely soluble in water. It has a specific gravity of about 1.79, a melting point of approximately 75 °C, and has a saline, cooling taste. As a food additive, its E number is E337.

Definition of Rochelle salt in the English dictionary

The definition of Rochelle salt in the dictionary is a white crystalline double salt, sodium potassium tartrate, used in Seidlitz powder. Formula: KNaC4H4O6.4H2O.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ROCHELLE SALT

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robust
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rocaille
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Rochdale
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Rochelle powder
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WORDS THAT END LIKE ROCHELLE SALT

acid salt
Attic salt
coarse-grain salt
common salt
complex salt
cooking salt
diazonium salt
double salt
garlic salt
Glauber salt
Glauber´s salt
kitchen salt
kosher salt
onium salt
rock salt
salt
sea salt
sulfonium salt
table salt
with a grain of salt
with a pinch of salt

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

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Translation of «Rochelle salt» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ROCHELLE SALT

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Translator English - Chinese

罗谢尔盐
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sal de Rochelle
570 millions of speakers

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Rochelle salt
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रोशेल नमक
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

روشيل الملح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сегнетовой соли
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sal de Rochelle
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রোশেল লবণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sel de Rochelle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Garam Rochelle
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Rochelle-Salz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ロッシェル塩
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

로쉘 소금
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Uyah saka Rochelle
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Rochelle muối
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ரோசெல் உப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रोशेल मीठ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Rochelle tuzu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sale di Rochelle
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sól Rochelle
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сегнетовой солі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sare Rochelle
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

άλας Rochelle
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Rochelle sout
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Rochelle salt
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Rochelle-salt
5 millions of speakers

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROCHELLE SALT»

Discover the use of Rochelle salt in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Rochelle salt and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Crystals and Crystal Growing
enough, you can grow the crystal for several months. Potassium Sodium Tartrate Tetrahydrate (Plate 16) ("Rochelle Salt"), KNaC4H4O6-4H;;O, colorless, orthorhombic system I. Supersaturated solution: a. 1 pound Rochelle Salt in 349 cc.
Alan Holden, Phylis Morrison, 1982
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LIFE
"Seed" rods cut from large crystals are placed in moving rubber trays full of supersaturated Rochelle salt solution. Tended by lightly dressed girls (see above ), the seeds grow to the required thickness in the tropic climate of a room called ...
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Popular Mechanics
Because Rochelle salt produces the best singing crystal, most of the development work has been done on that substance. These remarkable crystals are grown as a crystal" will be ^-^ no idle comparison for the voice of your radio or ...
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Piezoelectricity
Rochelle salt, discovered after quartz, has been used for various transducers because it has a great piezoelectric effect. Though Rochelle salt is a piezoelectric crystal of the highest electromechanical coupling coefficient, its applicability is ...
Carol Zwick Rosen, Basavaraj V. Hiremath, Robert Everest Newnham, 1992
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Acoustics, Waves and Oscillations
As was shown therein, the effect was discovered by Curie brothers1 in 1880 who found that certain crystals like quartz, tourmaline and rochelle salt will develop in electric charge when a mechanical pressure or tension is applied to the face of ...
S. N. Sen (Professor.), 1990
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Classic Chemistry Demonstrations
Description Hydrogen peroxide oxidises potassium sodium tartrate (Rochelle salt ) to carbon dioxide. The reaction is catalysed by cobalt(ll) chloride. When solutions of hydrogen peroxide and Rochelle salt are mixed, carbon dioxide is slowly ...
Ted Lister, Catherine O'Driscoll, Neville Reed, 1995
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Digest of Literature on Dielectrics
XIII . Rochelle Salt and Other Tartrates Myl, J., Solc, Z., and Kvapil, J., Sb. Ved. Praci, Vysoka Skola Chem . -Technol . , Pardubice 1963, 89-96. The solubilities of Rochelle salt and dipotassium tartrate were determined in the crystal growth ...
‎1965
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Dielectric Phenomena in Solids: With Emphasis on Physical ...
With Emphasis on Physical Concepts of Electronic Processes Kwan-Chi Kao. Figure 4-14 Spontaneous polarization of KH2PO4 as a function of temperature. Figure 4-15 Dielectric constant of Rochelle salt as a function of temperature.
Kwan-Chi Kao, 2004
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Solid State Physics
The first useful method for preparing silver films from solutions was developed by Liebig in 1835.33 Today, the Brashear method“ and the Rochelle salt or Böttger- Bothe method35 are the most widely used processes for chemical silvering.
Karl Lark-Horovitz, Vivian Annabelle Johnson, 1959
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Graham's Electroplating Engineering Handbook
Rochelle salt is probably the complexing agent used most frequently in catalytic copper plating solutions. EDTA can be substituted for the Rochelle salt in equal molar quantities. The copper complex formed with EDTA is considered to be more ...
L.J. Durney, 1984

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