Sentence examples for alum from inspiring English sources

As Henry lay dying, leaving a vast treasure (much of it, interestingly, from trading alum, essential for dyeing cloth), he said he was sorry for what his officers had done.

The other is alum, a salt containing aluminium.

As they report in this week's Nature, alum (or, strictly speaking, the aluminium within it) works by stimulating bits of the immune system called NOD-like receptors.

For example, they have spent eight decades adding alum to vaccines as what is known as an adjuvant.

The money pays for chlorine and alum (the latter is a chemical compound used since Roman times to purify water), pump operators like Ms Nansubuga, who get 10% of sales, and contributes to a savings account designed to provide maintenance for the next 20 years.

There are alum quarries on Vulcano.

Rather, I feel nauseous from the diesel exhaust puttering out hiccups of black smoke, as the Bhavna Putra's chipped orange and white hull soars and dips like a cistern ball-cock, on the alum-coloured waves.

Tetanus toxoid is available in both vaccine fluid and alum-precipitated preparations.

It said that vast numbers of books in libraries are literally turning to dust because their paper is made from wood pulp that has been treated with alum-rosin compounds which give off sulphuric acid, so that the books actually consume themselves.

"People can't take a school in Alum Rock with Asian kids doing better than grammar schools," suggests a young man who left Park View two years ago.The Muslim Council of Britain, an umbrella group for Islamic outfits, is only a little more delicate.

It lies close to Alum Bay, notable for its many-coloured sandstone cliffs and for The Needles, a group of chalk sea stacks.