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noun (English)
1. (inorganic chemistry) Any similar double sulphate in which either or both of the potassium and aluminium is wholly or partly replaced by other univalent or tervalent cations.Examples: "With weld and cochineal, which are colouring matters the most sensible to the action of sulphate of iron, the purified alums gave us colours more brilliant, fresh, and in a slight degree lighter; while those with our common alums were all duller, and evidently of a deeper hue."; "For similar reasons, aluminium sulphate and alums are used in dyeing cloth.[…]Normally alums are soluble in water and insoluble in alcohols."; "In structure, the alums consist of simple ions, being not complexes, but double salts. Potash alum or potassium alum is the common alum, with the formula KAl(SO₄)₂·12H₂O) which, for convenience, may be written K₂SO₄·Al₂(SO₄)₃·24H₂O"countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.Examples: "The silk should be boiled at the rate of 20 parts of soap per cent. , and then alumed. The aluming need not be so strong as for the fine crimson"; "After drying, the cloth was alumed and finally dyed."transitive
noun (English)
1. (Canada, US) A past attendee or graduate (of any gender) of a college, university or other educational institution.Examples: "1961 Spring, Anchora of Delta Gamma, Volume LXXVII, No. 3, page 59, Evanston-North Shore alums are happy to open their homes to Sigma actives for special social events."; "You'll remember that we're starting with a list of slightly over 7,000 names that are alums (most of them over 50) that we'd like to whittle down to a manageable list of prospects."; "All schools that last have alums, and, ancient as it was by American standards, Trinity by mid-century had thousands."Synonyms: alumni, alumnxCanadaUS
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