Epsom salts
English
Etymology
Named after Epsom in Surrey, England; the city had a spring which gave forth bitter saline water containing the compound.
Noun
- magnesium sulfate, used as a laxative and in the preparation of tofu as a coagulator, and formerly as a medicated soaking solution.
Translations
common name for magnesium sulfate
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