Alum

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·vt To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.

II. Alum ·noun A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (·esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.

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