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microcosmic
CIDE DICTIONARY
microcosmic, a. [Cf. F. microcosmique.].
Of or pertaining to the microcosm. [1913 Webster]
Microcosmic salt (Chem.), a white crystalline substance obtained by mixing solutions of sodium phosphate and ammonium phosphate, and also called hydric-sodic-ammonic-phosphate . It is a powerful flux, and is used as a substitute for borax as a blowpipe reagent in testing for the metallic oxides. Originally obtained by the alchemists from human urine, and called sal microcosmicum .
THESAURUS
microcosmic
atomic, corpuscular, embryonic, evanescent, germinal, granular, impalpable, imperceptible, imponderable, inappreciable, indiscernible, infinitesimal, intangible, invisible, microscopic, molecular, subatomic, tenuous, thin, ultramicroscopic, unseeableFor further exploring for "microcosmic" in Webster Dictionary Online