"Chloralum" is a word in ENGLISH

Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.

To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, …

Barbarism; impurity of speech.

Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp.

The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for …

Impure limestone.

A volatile, very inflammable liquid, C6H6, contained in the naphtha produced by the destructive distillation of coal, from which it …

An impure benzene, used in the arts as a solvent, and for various other purposes. See Benzene.

Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter …

Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from …

An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.

A variety of andalusite; -- called also macle. The tessellated appearance of a cross section is due to the symmetrical …

One of the higher aromatic hydrocarbons of coal tar, allied to naphthalene and anthracene. It is a white crystalline substance, …

The act or process of making clear or transparent, by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine.

To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.

A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It …

To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.

A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins.

Debauched in character or practice; impure.

To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text.