sodium sulfate

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   a solid white bitter salt used in manufacturing glass and paper and dyes and pharmaceuticals

   Synonymssodium sulphate

   Broadersulfate

Questions about sodium sulfate

What does sodium sulfate mean?

sodium sulfate means "a solid white bitter salt used in manufacturing glass and paper and dyes and pharmaceuticals".

What is another word for sodium sulfate?

Close synonyms include sodium sulphate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sodium sulfate a common word?

sodium sulfate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.