Rochelle salt

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Ro·chelle salt or Ro·chelle salts (r

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See potassium sodium tartrate.

[After (La) Rochelle.]

Rochelle salt

(Medicine / Pharmacology) a white crystalline double salt, sodium potassium tartrate, used in Seidlitz powder. Formula: KNaC₄H₄O₆.4H₂O

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Rochelle salt - a double salt used in Seidlitz powder; acts as a cathartic

potassium sodium tartrate, Rochelle salts

double salt - a solution of two simple salts that forms a single substance on crystallization

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