What is the popular name of Magnesium Sulphate, a white crystalline salt used in medicine and in leather processing?
Magnesium sulfate is usually encountered in the form of a hydrate MgSO 4·nH 2O, for various values of n between 1 and 11. The most common is the heptahydrate MgSO 4·7H2O, known as Epsom salt, which is a household chemical with many traditional uses, including bath salts.
