EPSOM SALTS

common name for magnesium sulfate heptahydrate, MgSO4·7H2O, a water-soluble bitter-tasting compound that occurs as white or colorless needle-shaped crystals. It was first prepared from the waters of mineral springs at Epsom, England; it also occurs as the mineral epsomite. Epsom salts is used medicinally as a purgative; it is also used in leather tanning, mordant dyeing, and as a filler in cotton goods and paper.

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books on: Epsom Salts  - 278 results

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Technical Design Solutions for Theatre: The Technical Brief Collection - Vol. 1
Book by Bronislaw J. Sammler, Don Harvey; Focal, 2002
Subjects: Stage Machinery, Theaters--Lighting, Theaters--Sound Effects, Theaters--Stage-Setting And Scenery
...cold is with a mixture of beer and epsom salts. This method is quick and much less...a medium and as a binder for the epsom salts. After the beer has evaporated...appearance. PROCESS 1. Mix the beer and epsom salts. A 2: 1 mix of beer to salts...
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Science for the Citizen: A Self-Educator Based on the Social Background of Scientific Discovery
Book by Lancelot Hogben, J. F. Horrabin; Alfred A. Knopf, 1938
Subjects: Civilization, Science, Science--History
...interconnected. The words alabaster and Epsom salts suggest no connexion with...in combination with water is Epsom salts both have the same cluster...of vitriol, alabaster, and Epsom salts, are just names of objects...already explained, analysis of salts formed when acids attack metals...oxides, etc., shows that a salt is a compound in which an atom...
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Folk Groups and Folklore Genres: A Reader
Book by Elliott Oring; Utah State University Press, 1989
Subjects: Folklore, Folklore--United States, United States--Social Life And Customs
...Well, hombre ," he says, "me give a little Epsom salts." Said, "How much Epsom salts do you give the cow?" He says, "Oh...measured half a gallon of water and a half a pound of Epsom salts. And they made the old man drink it. Well...
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Unusual Words and How They Came About
Book by Edwin Radford; Philosophical Library, 1946
Subjects: English Language--Slang--Dictionaries, English Language--Terms And Phrases, Proverbs, English
Epsom salts . Sad to relate, the present...entitled to the name. The original Epsom Salts came from a natural mineral spring at Epsom, in the eighteenth century...leaving behind the mineral salts. The salt, in point of fact, was magnesium...
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Earth Science
Book by John Gabriel Navarra, Joseph S. Weisberg, Frank Michael Mele; John Wiley & Sons, 1971
Subjects: Earth Sciences
...per cent of the common salts, and epsom salt magnesium sulfate about...SALT PER CENT OF COMMON SALTS IN SEAWATER Sodium chloride table salt 77.7 Magnesium chloride 10.8 Magnesium Sulfate epsom salts 4.7 Calcium sulfate gypsum...
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journal articles on: Epsom Salts  - 11 results

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Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee: Beyond a White, Teen Icon
Journal article by Georganne Scheiner; Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 22, 2001
Subjects: 1950s (Decade)--Social aspects, Celebrities in mass media--Social aspects, Celebrities--Media coverage, Celebrities--Social aspects, Dee, Sandra--Behavior, Social values--1950s (Decade) AD, Women in popular culture--1950s (Decade) AD, Women--1950s (Decade) AD, Women--Portrayals
...anorexia, twice after overdoses of Epsom salts caused cardiac distress, and another...hospitalizations due to the overdose of Epsom salts. Parsons wrote a didactic piece...harmfully. At sixteen a dose of epsom salts hospitalized her....Her continuing...
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The Mexican American Sobador, Convergent Disease Discourse, and Pain Validation in South Texas
Journal article by Servando Z. Hinojosa; Human Organization, Vol. 67, 2008
Subjects: Back pain, Family physicians, Fixed incomes, Folk medicine, Medical research, Medicine, Pain management, Studies, Texas, Working conditions
...take a purgative of sal de higuera (Epsom salt) to cleanse her G.I. tract...water, towels, olive oil, sugar, salt, and estafiate. Ritual items like...like acetaminophen, aspirin, and Epsom salts (see Anderson 1987:44; Trotter...
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Altered Consciousness in Flotation-rest and Chamber-rest: Experience of Experimental Pain and Subjective Stress
Journal article by Anette Kjellgren, Ulf Sundequist, Ulla Sundholm, Torsten Norlander, Trevor Archer; Social Behavior and Personality, Vol. 32, 2004
...concentration of 1.3 g/ml (cc). In contrast to a sodium chloride solution, magnesium salts (also called Epsom salts) are benign upon the skin surface. The salt does not irritate or dry out the skin. The roof of the tank was horizontally hinged...
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Breastfeeding and Health Professionals in Britain, New Zealand and the United States, 1900-1970
Journal article by Linda Bryder; Medical History, Vol. 49, 2005
...Tie yourself up tightly-dont drink any liquids just wash your mouth out if it gets dry-take a double of doses of Epsom salts and that should fix it". He also told the nurse present, "Your mob are as helpful as a useless flea".75 When...
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Illegal Operations: Women, Doctors, and Abortion, 1886-1939
Journal article by Angus Mclaren; Journal of Social History, Vol. 26, 1993
Subjects: Abortion--Social aspects, British Columbia--Social aspects
...miscarriage.(30) But women could always try common household supplies such as castor oil, Beechams Pills, and epsom salts which they had at hand before turning to such compounds as "Dr. Hunts Female Pills," "French Female Pills" and...
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Oldies but Goodies: There's Science Behind Some Favorite Remedies like Epsom Salts
Magazine article by Nancy Wozny; Dance Magazine, Vol. 83, December 2009
Subjects: Alternative medicine--Methods, Dancers--Grooming, Dancers--Health aspects, Myalgia--Care and treatment, Salts--Usage
...Favorite Remedies like Epsom Salts. by Nancy Wozny ILLUSTRATION...straight for a soothing Epsom salt bath, where she was...Vyalikov has been turning to Epsom salts and Tiger Balm since...so Fridays are big salt days." The Australian...
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Recession-proof Spa Treatment
Magazine article by Michelle Bender; Working Mother, Vol. 32, February 2009
Subjects: Feet
...Spa Treatment by Michelle Bender Epsom salts may seem like something from your...When absorbed into the skin, Epsom salts - a naturally occurring mineral...Soak away stress: Add 2 cups Epsom salts to bath water and soak at least...
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This Little Piggie Went to the Spa
Magazine article by Angela Cannon-Crothers; Mothering, May/Jun 2009
Subjects: Aromatherapy, Children & youth, Feet, Herbs, Parents & parenting, Plumbing fixtures
...combine aromatic herbs and flowers with Epsom salts are not only good for the health...more sensual with the addition of Epsom salts, essential oils, herbs...such as diabetes or an open wound. Epsom salts are not recommended for anyone...
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Summer in the Garden
Magazine article; The Saturday Evening Post, Vol. 274, July 2002
Subjects: Gardens & gardening, Outdoors, Summer
...flowering than traditional pruning and thinning techniques. Fertilize your roses with Epsom salts. An old folk tradition of applying a half-cup of Epsom salts around each rose bush after pruning adds magnesium to the soil. It also results in...
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What Is an "altered State"?
Magazine article; American Cinematographer, Vol. 62, March 1981
...tank of blood-warm salt water, closed the...buoyant solution of Epsom salts kept at neutral temperature...totally immersed in warm salt water and wearing only...tanks, discarding salt for the more benign Epsom salts and using a technique...
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newspaper articles on: Epsom Salts  - 203 results

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This Is a Town with Fizz -- and It's Good for You; the World's Greatest Flat Race and Epsom Salts Are What Made Spot Fight This County Town Famous. Now Its Easy Commute into Town Has Made It Popular with Londoners, Discovers Anthea Masey; Spotlight on Epsom
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 23, 2011
Subjects: Sulfates
...the Worlds Greatest Flat Race and Epsom Salts Are What Made Spot Fight This County...Discovers Anthea Masey; Spotlight on Epsom. Byline: Anthea Masey AHORSE RACE...fame to the small Surrey town of Epsom, 18 miles south-west of London...
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SECRETS OF FERGIE'S DIET CLINIC; Epsom Salts for Breakfast. Stale Bread Roll (Chewed Exactly 50 Times) and a Spot of Nasal Reflexology in the Afternoon ... My Bizarre Stay at the Austrian Clinic the Duchess of York Swears By
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 14, 2005
...a 6ft chip. DAY 3 THE Epsom salts are having an effect on...a facial and a body salt wrap. I am exhausted...take a double dose of Epsom salts. Nothing happens. The...I am not allowed any Epsom salts today, for fear...
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Why It's a Good Idea to Keep Epsom Salt around the House
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 6, 2011
Subjects: Bath products--Usage
...Epsom Salt around the House. Epsom salt brings thoughts of a relaxing...incorporate it into homemade bath salts or bath bombs. It can be used...aching muscles. How have you used Epsom salt? The Epsom salt council (epsomsaltcouncil...
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AUSTRIA HUNGRY; Dr Mayr Believed That Epsom Salts, Fruit Tea and No Dinner Was the Path to Good Health. Charlotte Eagar Returns to the Hills to See If His Clinic Can Work Its Old Magic
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 1, 2005
...AUSTRIA HUNGRY; Dr Mayr Believed That Epsom Salts, Fruit Tea and No Dinner Was the...rushed through by a morning dose of Epsom salts. Mayr also believed that a...to potatoes, plus our obligatory Epsom salts) and we set off by train...
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House Bold Cavalry Set to Charge; CARSON: RIVALS WILL NEED EPSOM SALTS AFTER CARLTON KOs THEM Derby Preview
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), May 29, 2011
Subjects: Sulfates
...Charge; CARSON: RIVALS WILL NEED EPSOM SALTS AFTER CARLTON KOs THEM Derby Preview...House will take all the beating at Epsom on Saturday. And he should know...OBriens Recital." Carson will be at Epsom on Saturday as a BBC pundit - and...
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encyclopedia articles on: Epsom Salts  - 8 results

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Epsom Salts
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
EPSOM SALTS common name for magnesium sulfate heptahydrate, MgSO...first prepared from the waters of mineral springs at Epsom, England; it also occurs as the mineral epsomite. Epsom salts is used medicinally as a purgative; it is also...
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Epsom and Ewell
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
EPSOM AND EWELL yoo l, city and district (1991 pop. 66,000), Surrey, SE England. Epsom salts were first prepared in 1618 from the mineral waters there. Epsom was a popular spa in the 17th and 18th cent...
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Salt , Chemical Compound
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...are a special kind of double salt. Complex salts, e.g., potassium ferricyanide...in solution. A hydrate is a salt that includes water in its solid crystalline form; Glaubers salt and Epsom salts are hydrates. Salts are often...
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Sulfur
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...galena, cinnabar, zinc blende, gypsum, barite, and epsom salts and in mineral springs and other waters. It is found...and thionyl chloride, used as reagents in chemistry; Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate), used as a laxative, bath additive...
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Sulfate
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...sulfate (SO 4 ) radical . Sulfates are salts or esters of sulfuric acid , H 2 SO...gypsum , alabaster , and selenite; Epsom salts is magnesium sulfate; sodium sulfate occurs as its decahydrate, Glaubers salt ; and strontium sulfate occurs as...
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