- Seidlitz powder. noun. An effervescing salt containing sodium bicarbonate and Rochelle salt and tartaric acid; used as a cathartic.
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What is compound Seidlitz powder give its composition?
Seidlitz powders / (ˈsɛdlɪts) / noun. a laxative consisting of two powders, tartaric acid and a mixture of sodium bicarbonate and Rochelle salt (sodium potassium tartrate)Also called: Rochelle powder.
Is Seidlitz powder is a dusting powder?
Seidlitz powder or Sedlitz powders is the name under which a commonly known regulator of digestion and laxative was distributed. It is composed of a mixture of tartaric acid, sodium bicarbonate, and potassium sodium tartrate, and is used as a mild cathartic by dissolving it in water and drinking.
What are the synonyms of Seidlitz powder?
nounan effervescing salt containing sodium bicarbonate and Rochelle salt and tartaric acidaperient.cathartic.physic.purgative.
What is the formula of sodium potassium tartrate?
KNaC4H4O6·4H2OPotassium sodium tartrate / Formula
How are Seidlitz powder administered?
Also to know is, how can Seidlitz powder be administered? They may be administered in water, both being dissolved at one time in one solution, or separate solutions may be prepared and mixed. The acid reacts upon the alkaline compound, producing sodium tartrate, while carbon dioxide escapes.Jun 8, 2020
What is the use of tartaric acid in Seidlitz powder?
Seidlitz powder (sed-lits) n. a mixture of sodium bicarbonate, sodium potassium tartrate, and tartaric acid, taken as a laxative when dissolved in water.
How do you make potassium tartrate?
Sodium potassium tartrate (Rochelle salt) is formed when potassium bitartrate (cream of tartar) interacts with sodium carbonate: Take a 500mL beaker and fill it halfway with water. Fill it with 250 mL of water. In a water-filled beaker, dissolve 200 g potassium bitartrate.
How do you make sodium tartrate?
Reagent A: Dissolve 25 g of anhydrous sodium carbonate, 25 g of sodium potassium tartrate, and 200 g of sodium sulfate in 800 ml of distilled water. Dilute to 1 l and filter if necessary (Nelson, 1944; Somogyi, 1952). Store at room temperature.
What is the common name of potassium sodium tartrate?
Rochelle saltPotassium sodium tartrate tetrahydrate, also known as Rochelle salt, is a double salt of tartaric acid first prepared (in about 1675) by an apothecary, Pierre Seignette, of La Rochelle, France.Oct 11, 2011
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Overview
Seidlitz powders is the generic name under which a commonly known laxative and digestion regulator was marketed and sold by numerous manufacturers under names such as "Rexall Seidlitz Powders", particularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The three ingredients of Seidlitz powders (tartaric acid, potassium sodium tartr…
Composition and use
The powders were often packaged in a small envelope containing two coloured paper wraps, one white and one blue. The white packets contained tartaric acid, and the blue packets contained a mixture of 75% w/w Rochelle salt (potassium sodium tartrate) and 25% baking soda (sodium bicarbonate). The powdery contents of both packets were stirred or dissolved separately in water and then mixed, giving off carbon dioxide with a characteristic fizzing sound. The drink was des…
Etymology
Seidlitz powders, manufactured by numerous chemical factories from the mid-19th century onwards, take their name from the village of Sedlec, near Most, Czech Republic (previously in Bohemia). The village seems to have received its Germanic name (Seidlitz) some time after 1526, when the Battle of Mohács brought about the collapse of Medieval Hungary. The Lands of the Bohemian C…
Sedlitz water, Seidschitz bitter water, etc.
Although Seidlitz powders have a digestive effect, they should not be confused with 'Sedlitz water' (also named for Sedlec), a well-known bitter mineral water which has been used since the 16th century as a digestion regulator and laxative. Sedlec (Seidlitz) was described in an 1867 guide to European spa townsas "a wretched-looking place, hardly meriting the name of a village, and the wells - whence the water should be derived - are a few shallow, circular pits, whose contents ver…
In popular culture
Though rarely used today, the term "Seidlitz powder" lives on as a lyric from the popular song "A Fine Romance" by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields. Written for the 1936 musical film, Swing Time, with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, it was released on a 1956 jazz album by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Ella and Louis Again, with the lines "We two should be like clams in a dish of chowder / But we just fizz like parts of a Seidlitz powder."
See also
• Epsom salts
External links
• Webpage with instructions on how to prepare the powder
• The Seidlitz five-stroke engine, by Gerald de L. Woode. Flight magazine (Flight Archive), 14 December 1916, pp. 15–6. Mildly hilarious spoof technical article published during World War I, in the days of the RFC.