Crossword clues for alum
alum
- USC reunion attendee
- University supporter, briefly
- University fund-raising target
- Univ. visitor, often
- Univ. fund-raising target
- Univ. contributor
- Textile-dyeing compound
- Target of some fundraising
- Target of a scholarship drive
- Target of a college fund-raiser
- Target of a coll. fundraiser
- Tanning sulfate
- Sulfate in styptic pencils
- Subject of a school magazine article
- Styptic pencil
- Student no more
- Spike Lee, vis-à-vis NYU
- Someone who went somewhere
- School supporter, often
- School Booster Club member
- Scholarship source, perhaps
- Scholarship namesake, often
- Scholarship founder, often
- Scholarship drive target, for short
- Reunion reuner
- Reunion grad
- Returning grad
- Relative of a grad
- Potential school donor, familiarly
- Possible contributor to a school fundraiser
- Person who no longer has class?
- Person involved in after-school activities?
- Person in old yearbooks
- Person in a "Class of ..."
- Person at a reunion
- One with '18 after one's name, say
- One whose name is often followed by two digits
- One once at Brown, e.g
- One coming back for a reunion and reliving the good old days
- One at a reunion
- Obama, to Columbia
- Obama vis-à-vis Columbia
- Name on many a dorm
- Musician's Institute grad
- Music institute grad
- Member of reunion (Abbr.)
- Many a university donor, informally
- Many a homecoming fan
- Many a fundraising target
- Many a fan at homecoming
- Many a college endower, casually
- Many a college donor, briefly
- Many a campus visitor
- Many a booster
- Light metal: Abbr
- Legacy student's relative, for short
- Hunter gatherer?
- Homecoming V.I.P
- Homecoming returnee, for short
- Homecoming guest, for short
- Homecoming guest (Abbr.)
- High school reunion attendee, briefly
- H.S. reunion attendee
- Grad org
- Grad of Ridgemont High
- Fund-drive target
- Frequent dorm-name honoree
- Former sr
- Former singer
- Former senior, for short
- Former mems
- Former member, for short
- Former member
- Former BMOC, e.g
- Former band member
- Former band mem
- Former attendee
- Endowment donor, often
- Endower in short
- Either Clinton, to Yale
- Eisenhower vis-à-vis West Point, informally
- Eddie Murphy, to "Saturday Night Live"
- Dyeing agent
- Dorm donor, often
- Diploma holder, casually
- Diploma displayer, for short
- Contributor to a school fundraiser
- Common scholarship donor
- Colourless compound used in dyeing and tanning
- Colorless salt in baking powders
- College mag subscriber, often
- College mag recipient
- College giver
- College fundraising target
- College fund-raising target
- College fund drive target
- College donor, often
- College donation drive target, for short
- College donation drive target, briefly
- College benefactor
- Coll. reuner
- Classmates.com patron
- Class of '97 member
- Class of '19 member, e.g
- Class of '18 member, for one
- Class of '11 member, now
- Certain reunion returnee
- Campus returnee, familiarly
- Campus returnee
- Campus fund-raising target, briefly
- Campus dorm's donor, often
- Booster, frequently
- Booster, at times
- Bill or Hillary vis-Ã -vis Yale
- Astringent stuff
- Application to a cut
- American returnee?
- A double sulfate
- "The Penn Stater" recipient
- "Class of" person, for short
- '18 honoree, today
- '10 grad now, e.g
- '03 class member, now
- '00 class member, now
- One who reunes
- Reuniongoer, informally
- Reunion attender
- Alma mater visitor
- Homecoming visitor, for short
- Sheepskin holder
- Graduate, for short
- Reuniongoer, briefly
- Reuniongoer, for short
- Styptic pencil stuff
- Astringent substance
- College endower, often
- Dubya, to Yale
- Wound application
- Class of '77 member, now
- Many a homecoming attendee
- Class reunion attender
- Styptic stuff
- Homecoming figure, for short
- Many a scholarship provider
- Homecoming guest, briefly
- Reunion attendee, briefly
- Homecoming attendee, for short
- One with an old school tie?
- School graduate, for short
- '06 class member, e.g.
- Person in the '00 class, e.g.
- Jefferson, to William and Mary
- Homecoming attender
- Class of '98 member, e.g.
- Homecoming attendee, in brief
- Chemical used to cure animal skins
- Reunion attendee, for short
- Fund-raising target, briefly
- Homecoming returnee, informally
- Many a team booster
- '08 classmate, now
- Styptic agent
- '10 grad now, e.g.
- '10 or '11 person, now
- Class Notes subject, informally
- Many a donor, in brief
- Many a college interviewer, in brief
- Stereotypical pennant waver, colloquially
- One in the class of '12 or '13, now
- Diploma holder, for short
- Eisenhower vis-Г -vis West Point, informally
- Obama vis-Г -vis Columbia
- '12 or '13, now
- Many a school benefactor
- Name on many a college hall, informally
- Big dipper
- Occasional "S.N.L." host, to "S.N.L."
- Many a college applicant's interviewer, for short
- A person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)
- Styptic substance
- Styptic-pencil ingredient
- Potassium ____ (astringent)
- Former student, briefly
- One of the grads
- A styptic
- Graduate from Calumet
- Old grad
- An astringent
- Ingredient in some dyes
- Kalinite's relative
- Double salt
- College graduate, for short
- Compound used in dyeing and tanning
- Person in the '00 class, e.g
- Reunion invitee
- University graduate, for short
- Reunion member
- Graduate, briefly
- Many a univ. donor
- Homecoming attendee, briefly
- Former senior, now
- Booster Club member
- Former member (Abbr.)
- College reunion attendee, for short
- Styptic base
- Donor drive target
- Deg. holder
- Class reunion attendee, for short
- Class reunion attendee, briefly
- Stuff in styptic pencils
- School reunion attendee, for short
- School reunion attendee
- School newsletter recipient
- One reuning
- Fund-raising target, often
- Fund drive target
- College booster, usually
- Astringent or styptic
- '04 class member, e.g
- Visitor to an old prof, perhaps
- Visitor to an old prof
- University newsletter recipient
- Univ. supporter, often
- Team booster, often
- Target of some donation drives
- Styptic material
- Styptic compound
- Styptic application
- School grad
- School fund-drive target
- Rice gatherer?
- Reunion goer
- Prof's visitor, maybe
- Pickling ingredient
- One with a degree
- Lt. metal
- Last year's senior
- Homecoming attendee, sometimes
- Grad, for short
- Diploma owner
- Degree recipient
- Degree holder, briefly
- Clinton, vis-a-vis Yale
- Certain astringent
- Astringent or emetic
- Astringent compound
- Yesteryear's senior, now
- W, vis-à-vis Yale
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alum \Al"um\, n. [OE. alum, alom, OF. alum, F. alun, fr. L. alumen alum.] (Chem.) A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.
Note: Common alum is the double sulphate of aluminium and potassium. It is white, transparent, very astringent, and crystallizes easily in octahedrons. The term is extended so as to include other double sulphates similar to alum in formula.
Alum \Al"um\, v. t.
To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of
alum; to treat with alum.
--Ure.
[1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "whitish mineral salt used as an astringent, dye, etc.," from Old French alum, from Latin alumen "alum," literally "bitter salt," cognate with Greek aludoimos "bitter" and perhaps with English ale.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K2SO4.Al2(SO4)3.24H2O). (from 14th c.) 2 (context chemistry English) Any similar double sulphate in which either or both of the potassium and aluminium is wholly or partly replaced by other univalent or tervalent cations. (from 17th c.) vb. (context transitive English) To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum. Etymology 2
n. (context US English) A graduate of a university or other institution.
WordNet
n. a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum [syn: ammonia alum, ammonium alum]
a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum [syn: potassium alum, potash alum]
a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) [syn: alumnus, alumna, graduate, grad]
a double sulphate of aluminum and potassium that is used as an astringent (among other things)
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Alum is both a specific chemical compound and a class of chemical compounds. The specific compound is the hydrated potassium aluminium sulfate ( potassium alum) with the formula K Al ·12. More widely, alums are double sulfate salts, with the general formula , where A is a monovalent cation such as potassium or ammonium and M is a trivalent metal ion such as aluminum or chromium(III). When the trivalent ion is aluminium, the alum is named after the monovalent ion.
Alum is a species and class of chemical compound.
- Potassium alum, the prototypical member of the class, often referred to simply as alum.
Alum may also refer to:
- Alum, Texas, a community in the United States
- Alumnus, a graduate of a particular institution
- Alum Pot, a pothole in Simon Fell, North Yorkshire, England
- Ålum Runestones, four Viking age runestones located in Ålum, Denmark
Alum is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Robert Alum (died 1417), an English medieval bishop and university chancellor
Usage examples of "alum".
This method can be carried out in, for instance, dyeing a cochineal scarlet with tin crystals, a yellow from fustic and alum, a black from logwood and copperas and bluestone, a red from madder and bichrome, and the dyeing of the Alizarine colours by the use of chrome fluoride, etc.
One had the same brushed, crosshatched alum carapace he had seen earlier, something new in navvy design.
La grande, it was called, and as each successive kettle was boiled down it was purified with alum and ash and emptied into the next: le flambeau, la lessive, le sirop, la batterie, every one smaller than the last, a seething inferno of heat and stink and boiling juice.
Ennet House alum and senior counselor Calvin Thrust came roaring in and pulled up a chair and straddled it backwards like a slow-tease stripper, slumping and draping his arms over the back of the chair, gesturing with an unlit rodney as he spoke.
Uses of Aluminium Sulphate and Alums -- Application to Wool and Silk -- Preparing and using Aluminium Acetates -- Employment of Aluminium Sulphate in Carbonising Wool -- The Manufacture of Lake Pigments -- Manufacture of Prussian Blue -- Hide and Leather Industry -- Paper Making -- Hardening Plaster -- Lime Washes -- Preparation of Non-inflammable Wood, etc.
Analysis and Valuation of the more important Chemicals used in Paper Making, including Lime, Caustic Soda, Sodium Carbonate, Mineral Acids, Bleach Antichlor, Alum, Rosin and Rosin Size, Glue Gelatin and Casein, Starch, China Clay, Blanc Fixe, Satin White and other Loading Materials, Mineral Colours and Aniline Dyes.
Fortunately, Dum-Dum said he had just the thing for them, a special concoction of his own devising, consisting of an astringent compounded of alum, sharkskin oil, hydrocortisone and a butylated cream to hold the ingredients into a semi-solid mass, guaranteed to either scare hemorrhoids back where they came from or simply dry the whole mess up into something that could be snipped off with a pair of surgical scissors.
Not as easy to bleach, but the alum they used in the wood-pulp process undergoes hydrolysis and produces sulphuric acid.
After effecting the erasure the spot is often rubbed over with a powdered alum or gum sandarac, or coated with gelatin or size.
It yields precipitates with alum, stannous chloride, chrome alum, silver nitrate, iron salts, copper sulphate.
No doubt the Kappa alums who had hired her, impressed with her accent and bearing, had this in mind.
They both had been alums of York, and they both had known their killer.
What kind of person in a university would target alums who became millionaires?
And they called alums from universities, where they knew how old you were, where you lived, and what you looked like.
Manufacture of Aluminium Sulphate and the Alums -- Manufacture of Sulphates of Iron.