silver salt

noun

1

: a salt of silver

2

: a silvery crystalline salt C₁₄H₇O₂SO₃Na used in dye manufacture : the sodium salt of anthraquinone-2-sulfonic acid

Word History

Etymology

in sense 1, from silver entry 1; in sense 2, from silver entry 2

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