Alum schist

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• Schist

  ·noun Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure (see Foliation) and hence admitting of ready ...

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• alum

  alum (hal-), n., or alus, i, f., a plant. I Comfrey : Symphytum officinale, Linn.; Plin. 27, 6, ...

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• Alum

  ·vt To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum. II. Alum ·no...

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• Alum root

  ·- A North American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifrage family, whose root has astringent pro...

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• Alum shale

  ·- A variety of shale or clay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to th...

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• Alum stone

  ·- A subsulphate of alumina and potash; alunite. ...

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• Roche alum

  ·- A kind of alum occuring in small fragments; — so called from Rocca, in Syria, whence alum is sai...

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