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per•salt
(pûr′sôlt′),USA pronunciation n. [Chem.]
- Chemistry(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.
- Chemistry(loosely) the salt of a peroxy acid.
- per- + salt1 1810–20