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Rochelle salt
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English
Etymology
From La Rochelle in France.
Noun
en inorganic compound The double salt potassium sodium tartrate tetrahydrate (KNaC₄H₄O₆·4H₂O), used for various scientific and medical purposes.
en 1998 Georgina Ferry Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life In fact, at the current state of knowledge and technology, probably only the simplest of the structures she worked on in Cambridge, Rochelle salt, could have been fully solved at the time.
Synonyms
en Seignette salt