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How to pronounce “alum”

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Practice the English pronunciation of alum with real speech in context.
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An Activist Investor on Challenging the Status Quolike, an alum is not a shareholder.
Definition summary
An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K2SO4·Al2(SO4)3·24H2O). [from 14th c.]

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How to pronounce alum

An Activist Investor on Challenging the Status Quo

like, an alum is not a shareholder.

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “alum”

Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K2SO4·Al2(SO4)3·24H2O). [from 14th c.]
  • (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. [from 17th c.]
  • [Verb]
  • (transitive) To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.

Practice Nearby Words

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