Definition of zinc sulfate
: a crystalline salt ZnSO4 used especially in making a white paint pigment, in printing and dyeing, in sprays and fertilizers, and in medicine as an astringent, emetic, and weak antiseptic
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The first known use of zinc sulfate was in 1851
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