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EPSOM SALTS, heptohydrated magnesium sulphate, MgSO4-7HjO, the magnesii sulphas of pharmacy (Ger. Bitter sols). It occurs dissolved in sea water and in most mineral waters, especially in those at Epsom (from which place it takes its name), Seidlitz, Saidschutz ...

EPSOM, a market town in the Epsom parliamentary division of Surrey, England, 14 m. S.W. by S. of London Bridge. Pop. of urban district (1901), 10,915. It is served by the London & South- Western a.nd the London, Brighton & South Coast railways, and on the race ...

... re doubtfully considered to be of Triassic age. Recent eruptive rocks, mainly basalts, form a line of hilts almost bare of vegetation between Benguella and Mi medcs. Nephelinc basalts and tiparite* occur at Dombe Grande. The presence of gum copal in considerab ...

... g aromatic taste; it is a highly acrid poison. Aniline is a weak base and forms salts with the mineral acids. Aniline hydrochloride forms large colourless tables, which become greenish on exposure; it is the " aniline salt " of commerce. The sulphate forms bea ...

... life. The food is alike in both cases; it consists of water, certain inorganic salts, carbohydrate material and proteid material. Both animals and plants take their water and inorganic salts directly as such. The animal cell can absorb its carbohydrate and pr ...

... hyolites were erupted locally near Tardree, Ball ymena and Glenarm. The later basalts are especially marked by columnar jointing, which determines the famous structures of the Giant's Causeway and the coast near Bengore Head. Volcanic necks may be recognized a ...

... Aquae Grant), &c. Only two occur in Britain: Aquae Suits — less correctly Aquae Salts — at Bath in Somerset, which was famous, and Buxton (called Aquae simply), which seems to have been far less important. Aquae Sulis was occupied by the Romans almost as soon ...

... became a fellow of the Royal Sodety. He had the good fortune to be called in at Epsom to prescribe for Prince George of Denmark, and in 1705 he was made physidan extraordinary to Queen Anne. Four years later he became royal physidan in ordinary, and in 1710 he ...

... still later times. Between this lowland and Armagh city, the early Cainozoic basalts form slightly higher ground, while on the west a strip of Trias appears, overlying Carboniferous Limestone. A rough conglomerate containing blocks of this latter rock forms t ...

... , form arsenides, with liberation of hydrogen; and solutions of gold and silver salts are reduced by the gas with precipitation of metallic gold and silver. Chlorine, bromine and iodine decompose arsine readily, the action being most violent in the case of chl ...

... burbs lie among the hills on the mainland, such as Mount Albert, Mount Eden and Epsom. Onehunga is a small port on Manukau harbour, served by rail. In Parnell is the former residence of Bishop Selwyn, who, arriving in the colony in 1842, assisted to draw up th ...

... short prismatic habit and black in colour, are common as phcnocrysts in many basalts, and are hence known as " basaltic augitc ": when the containing rock weathers to a clayey material the augitc is left as black isolated crystals, and such specimens, usually ...

... ments of Hauy much later, Sir David Brewster discovered that various artificial salts were pyro-electric, and he mentions the tartrates of potash and soda and tartaric acid as exhibiting this property in a very strong degree. He also made many experiments with ...

... occur in the Veronese and Vicentin Alps — Ronca and Spelecco schists. Tuffs, basalts and other igneous rocks appear also in Montana, Wyoming, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Colorado; also in Central America, the Antillean region and S. America. It has ...

... vented by Archilochus. Accordingly we find thc first ten of these epodes EPONA— EPSOM composed in alternate verses of iambic trimeter and iambic dimeter, thus: — " At o Deorum quicquid in coelo regit Terras et humanum genus." In the seven remaining epodes Hora ...

... ional precipitation with ammonia or some other base. Erbium forms rose-coloured salts and a rose-coloured oxide. The oxide dissolves slowly in acids; it is not reduced by hydrogen and is infusible. The salts show a characteristic absorption spectrum. See J. F. ...

... reconstitution committee after the South African War. ESHER, a township in the Epsom parliamentary division of Surrey, England, 145 m. S.W. of London by the London & South Western railway (Esher and Claremont station). It is pleasantly situated on rising grou ...

... oS.'p. 343). It forms crystalline compounds with bromine and with many metallic salts. Mtdieiiu. — For the anaesthetic properties of ether see ANAES-

... r hand plant remains are abundant in the sands and clays interbedded with the basalts. It is probable, therefore, that in Eocene times a great land-mass lay to the north-west of Europe, over which the basalt lavas flowed, and that the formation of this part of ...

... q de Boisbaudran's samarium; G. Urbain and H. Lacombe in 1904 obtained the pure salts by fractional crystallization of the nitric acid solution with magnesium nitrate in the presence of bismuth nitrate. The salts have a faint pink colour, and show a faint abso ...

... to the d and / acids by fractional crystallization of the strychnine or brucine salts. The acid yields, on appropriate treatment, (/-mannose and (/-mannite. Similarly the / acid yields the laevo derivatives. The next step was to prepare glucose. This was effec ...

... e subsequent researches of Sir H. Davy on the decomposition of the solutions of salts by the voltaic current were turned to account in the water voltameter telegraph of Sommering and the modification of it proposed by Schweigger, and in a similar method propos ...

... as to the constitution of these dyestuns, whether they are quaternary ammonium salts or thionium salts, see A. Hantzsch, Ber., 1906, 39, PP- I53f 1365; F. Kehrmann. ibid., 1906, 39, p. 914.

... hese were known as " trencher plates." " Trencher salt-cellars " were the small salts placed near each person for use, as opposed to the ornamental " standing " salts. For " trench," a ditch, and " entrenchment," see FORTIFICATION AND SlEGECRAFT.

... 624-29) science is the key to universal happiness; Tommaso Campanella's Civitas Salts (1623) portrays a communistic society, and is largely inspired by the Republic of Plato; James Harrington's Oceana (1656), which had a profound influence upon political thoug ...

... cid is an oily liquid having the odour of stale cheese and boiling at 174°; the salts are usually greasy to the touch. Potassium permanganate oxidizes it to /3-oxyisovaleric acid (CH3)2-C(OH)-CH2-CO2H, whilst nitric acid gives, among other products, dinitropro ...