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Sei·gnette salt

or  Seignette's salt  n :  ROCHELLE SALT
 
Seignette, Pierre (1660-1719),
French pharmacist. Seignette first prepared potassium sodium tartrates in 1672. Ten years later he introduced Seignette salt as a laxative.
 
 

 
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