Epsom salts

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Etymology

Named after Epsom in Surrey, England; the town had a spring which gave forth bitter saline water containing the compound.

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Epsom salts (countable and uncountable, plural Epsom salts)

  1. magnesium sulfate, used as a laxative and in the preparation of tofu as a coagulator, and formerly as a medicated soaking solution.

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