It depends what you're using it for. For some uses other salts (such as table salt or sea salt) might work; if you're doing something that depends on the specific chemical properties (for example, you need the magnesium ions to be present), then table salt will NOT work.
potassium salts can be subsititute to the epsom salt
Sodium sulfate is very suitable as laxative.
Sodium sulfate is a substitute.
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Because this salt was discovered at Epsom, UK.
Epsom salt is not harmful for the drains.
Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate - MgSO4.7H2O.
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No. Epsom salt (usually "Epsom Salts" as if plural) is a salt: magnesium sulphate. Washing soda is sodium carbonate, an alkali. Two totally different compounds.
Yes. Epsom salts combat Chlorosis.
They are ionic salts.
Pure Epsom salts do not contain any lead. Since Epsom salts are magnesium sulfate, they contain only magnesium, sulfur, and oxygen.
Because this salt was discovered at Epsom, UK.
Epsom salts are used for sore muscles in athletes and others. These Epsom salts have drying and pain relief properties. They can also be used as laxatives when ingested.
In Epsom, UK.
Epsom Salts are salts. There are many different kinds of salts, the most widely known being table salt, which is NaCl. The fact that this is not the only kind of salt can cause confusion.
No, they are different.
Epsom salt is not harmful for the drains.
Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate - MgSO4.7H2O.
Epsom salts is magnesium sulfate, MgSO4, which has three elements: magnesium, sulfur, and oxygen.
They are different compounds: table salt is sodium chloride, Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate heptahydrate. They are ionic salts.