Glaubers salt


Glau′ber's salt′

(ˈglaʊ bərz)
n. a form of sodium sulfate, a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na2SO4•10H2O, used chiefly in textile dyeing and as a cathartic. [1730–40; after J. R. Glauber (1604–68), German chemist]