Definitions for persalts

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persalts per·salt

Spelling: [pur-sawlt]

IPA: /ˈpɜrˌsɔlt/

Persalts is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 484 anagrams from letters in persalts (aelprsst).

Definitions for persalts

noun

1. (in a series of salts of a given metal or group) the salt in which the metal or group has a high, or the highest apparent, valence.
2. (loosely) the salt of a peroxy acid.

Origin of persalts

First recorded in 1810-20; per- + salt¹

Examples for persalts

If a solution of a persalt of iron is now added to the fluid, a blue precipitate is formed.

Prussian blue, with a persalt of iron or tin as a mordant, gives a very splendid dark blue.