Alum is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ALUM in dictionary:

VERB:
• To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.
NOUN:
• a sulphate of ammonium and potassium, used as a mordant
• any of a number of analogous crystalline double sulphates of a monovalent metal (or group) and a trivalent metal
• a colourless astringent compound which is a hydrated double sulphate of aluminium and potassium, used in solution in dyeing and tanning.
• a former pupil or student of a school, college, or university; an alumnus or alumna
• 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.
• a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum
• a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum
• a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)
• a double sulphate of aluminum and potassium that is used as an astringent (among other things)
• double sulphate of aluminium and potassium
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a chemical compound

Words related to ALUM

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Words that contain ALUM

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How to use ALUM in a sentence

• A half mile south of these springs we found an alum spring yielding but little water and surrounded with beautiful alum crystals.
• From its border we obtained a great many curiously shaped deposits of alum slightly impregnated with iron.
• We used to do it with alum, but no alum is left now.
• They should be bathed frequently in cold water to which a little alum has been added.
• At any rate, when alum is administered, the onslaught of the disease is promptly stopped.
• The above method of detecting the presence of alum, must therefore be taken with some limitation.
• On his arrival at Allahabad, Shah Alum was with his vizier, and the three Indian rulers marched with a large army to Benares, and encamped not many miles from the English.
• By this act Shah Alum was deprived of his rightful patrimony.
• Richardson, suggests the use of diluted sulphuric acid, or of alum.
• If alum is present, the mixture will change from pink to lavender blue.
• Alum, a most frequent constituent of such baking powders, is exceedingly injurious to the stomach.
• Such substances as these must not, in general, be boiled with alum, although this latter ingredient may be very properly used in the preparation of the stuff.
• The first class is tried with alum, the second with soap, and the third with tartar.
• Powdered cloves and powdered alum, rubbed on the gum and put in the diseased tooth will sometimes lessen the pain.
• The alum keeps the rind firm and retains its color.
• Put cucumbers and onions into this, add one teaspoon of powdered alum, dissolved in a little warm water, add enough vinegar to cover it well, let stand three weeks before using.
• There was alum in our bread, chalk in our milk, glass in our sugar, Venetian red in our cocoa, and heaven knows what in the syrup.
• Common baking powders often consist of the same ingredients, and sometimes also of magnesia and alum.
• One can do a certain amount with alum towards rendering the water less foul.
• Boil an ounce of alum in one gallon of water, and pour over them, letting them stand at least half a day on the back of the stove.

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