Oxide—a compound of oxygen with a metal.
Phosphate—a compound of phosphoric acid with an alkali.
Proximate—an organic compound, such as wood, starch, gum, etc.; a product of life.
Pungent—pricking.
Putrefaction—rotting.
Saturate—to fill the pores of any substance, as a sponge with water, or charcoal with ammonia.
Silicate—a compound of silica with an alkali.
Soluble—capable of being dissolved.
Solution—a liquid containing another substance dissolved in it.
Saturated Solution—one which contains as much of the foreign substance as it is capable of holding.