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  • noun Plural form of percarbonate.

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  • Numerous other substances have been proposed for addition to soaps, including yeast, tar from peat (sphagnol), Swedish wood tar, permanganate of potash, perborates and percarbonates of soda and ammonia, chlorine compounds, but none of these has at present come much into favour, and some had only ephemeral existence.

    The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton

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