Epsom salts

English Magnesium sulfate Etymology Named after Epsom in Surrey, England; the town 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. en 2010 w:Andrea Levy w:The Long Song Tinder Press (2017) 71–72 And who but July would know that her back needed to be rubbed after she had drank her Epsom salts so as to release, into a belch or fart, the wind that so plagued her. Translations common name for magnesium sulfate Burmese: my ဆားခါး Finnish: fi karvassuola, fi katkerosuola Greek: el θειικό μαγνήσιο n Gujarati: gu વિલાયતી મીઠું Hungarian: hu keserűsó Jingpho: kac săhka Russian: ru англи́йская соль f Yiddish: yi ביטערזאַלץ, yi ענגלישע זאַלץ Anagrams en aelmopssst mesoplasts en terms derived from toponyms