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Seignette|sɛɲɛt| Also 8 Saignette. The name of a French chemist of the seventeenth century used attrib. in Seignette salt, (earlier † Seignette's salt, F. sel de Seignette), a name for potassium and sodium tartrate, Rochelle salt.
1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl., Seignette's salt, a name given in France to a kind of sal polycrestus [etc.]. 1758Reid tr. Macquer's Chym. I. 126 This salt is another sort of soluble Tartar. It is called Saignette's Salt, from the inventor's name. 1863Fownes Chem. (ed. 9) 566 Tartrate of potassa and soda; Rochelle or seignette salt. |