What (who) is Epsom salts - definition

CHEMICAL COMPOUND

Epsom salts; Magnesium sulphate; Magnesium Sulphate; Bitter salt; MgSO4; Epsom Salt; Epsom Salts; Magnoplasm; Englischsalz; Bittersalz; Magnesium Sulfate; E518; Bitter salts; MgO4S; Epson salt; ATC code A06AD04; ATCvet code QA06AD04; ATC code A12CC02; ATCvet code QA12CC02; ATC code B05XA05; ATCvet code QB05XA05; ATC code D11AX05; ATCvet code QD11AX05; ATC code V04CC02; ATCvet code QV04CC02; Hair salt; Sal amarum; Sal anglicum; Sal catharticum; Sal seidlitense; Salts of England; Sel d'angleterre; MgS04; Mag sulfate; Hexahydrite; Epsom water

Epsom salts

Epsom salts is a kind of white powder which you can mix with water and drink as a medicine to help you empty your bowels.

N-UNCOUNT

Epsom salts

¦ plural noun crystals of hydrated magnesium sulphate used as a purgative.

Origin

C18: named after the town of Epsom in Surrey, where the salts were first found occurring naturally.

Epsom salts

·- ·Alt. of Epsom salt.

Wikipedia

Magnesium sulfate

Magnesium sulfate or magnesium sulphate (in English-speaking countries other than the US) is a chemical compound, a salt with the formula MgSO₄, consisting of magnesium cations Mg²⁺ (20.19% by mass) and sulfate anions SO2−4. It is a white crystalline solid, soluble in water but not in ethanol.

Magnesium sulfate is usually encountered in the form of a hydrate MgSO₄·nH₂O, for various values of n between 1 and 11. The most common is the heptahydrate MgSO₄·7H₂O, known as Epsom salt, which is a household chemical with many traditional uses, including bath salts.

The main use of magnesium sulfate is in agriculture, to correct soils deficient in magnesium (an essential plant nutrient because of the role of magnesium in chlorophyll and photosynthesis). The monohydrate is favored for this use; by the mid 1970s, its production was 2.3 million tons per year. The anhydrous form and several hydrates occur in nature as minerals, and the salt is a significant component of the water from some springs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium sulfate

Examples of use of Epsom salts

1. He said grandma, they open up my suitcase and take the surma and Epsom salts.

2. So sex is a chromosomal purge, a kind of epsom salts for your genome.

3. New research backs the idea that sex is a kind of epsom salts for genomes, purging them of errors Johnjoe McFadden Wednesday October 12, 2005 The Guardian Why do we bother with sex?

4. Of the unpalatable alternatives available the suicidal route of recommending that the Brute put himself on a cleansing regimen of Epsom salts and colonic irrigation, versus the cowardly option of playing the victim and making a plea for the audiences sympathy Caplin chose neither.