Definitions for "Alum"
A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.
common reference to potassium aluminum sulfate dodecahydrate, a crystalline compound used in water purification, leather tanning, as an astringent, and in baking powder; it occurs in nature as the mineral kalunite; in medicine it is used to stop bleeding.
The most common chemical is aluminum sulfate. Any one of several aluminum compounds used in pools to form a gelatinous floc on sand filters or to coagulate and precipitate suspended particles in the water.
The processing of alum from shale is often considered as the earliest chemical industry in the British Isles. The alum industry began in Yorkshire from the first decade of the 1600s with large quarries at Guisborough, Loftus and Boulby. Alum was principally used in the textile industry as a fixing agent for dyes. It was also used by tanners to produce a more supple leather.
chemical used in acid hardening fixing baths.
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an odorless, colorless substance used as a topical antibiotic, as an adjuvant in some vaccines and sometimes as placebo.
Luck and prosperity will be yours if you dreamed of having this tongue-puckering substance in your possession, or if you tasted it and it was sweet instead of bitter.
To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.
Keywords:  senior, brief, former, donor, enrolled
The donor category applied to records of former students and to currently enrolled students who have earned a degree or have reached senior status 90 credits. Prior to 1970, the ALUM category was sometimes added to records of students who attended for only a brief time.
Keywords:  abbreviated, form
An abbreviated form of Alumna and/or Alumnus.
abbreviation for Alumnus, Alumna, Alumni, or Alumnae
Keywords:  australian, land, management
Australian Land Use Management
a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)