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What is a sulphite?

What is a sulphite? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (inorganic chemistry) Alternative spelling of sulfite
  2. (archaic, slang) A person who is spontaneous and original in thought and conversation.
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The solution is diluted with water, and treated with a solution of sulphite of soda.
Under pre-war conditions, the largest use in the United States was in the manufacture of paper pulp by the sulphite process.
What are known as the soda-pulp and the sulphite processes are examples of this.
Classifying the colours individually, the note says the black paste contains lead oxide, green has copper sulphate and the red has mercury sulphite.
A mixture of sulphite of calcium, chalk, and carbolic acid, or of sulphite and carbonate of lime.
Among the better known agents which have such an effect upon latex, formalin and sodium sulphite are the chief.

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