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    Glauber's Salt was not discovered in the spring water of the home country of the alchemist/chemist who coined the term. The hydrate of sodium sulfate was found where?

    Question #91292. Asked by BRY2K. (Jan 19 08 6:04 AM)


    zonko

    		The hydrate of sodium sulfate is known as Glauber's Salt after the Dutch/German apothecary Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604–1670), who discovered it in Hungarian spring water. He himself named it sal mirabilis (miraculous salt), because of its medicinal properties: the crystals were used as a general purpose laxative, until more sophisticated alternatives came about in the 1900s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_sulfate

    Jan 19 08, 6:21 AM

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