sodium sulphate

1. 1.

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

   Synonymssodium sulfate

   Broadersulfate

Questions about sodium sulphate

What does sodium sulphate mean?

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

What is another word for sodium sulphate?

Close synonyms include sodium sulfate. 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 sulphate a common word?

sodium sulphate 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.