1991, Felix Gilbert,The Pope, His Banker, and Venice,page80:
Venice also neededalum for trade, since it was the point of departure for overland transportation ofalum to southern Germany and its cloth-manufacturing Free Cities.
2011, Thomas Penn,Winter King, Penguin, published2012, page201:
A natural astringent and antiseptic, potassiumalum was coveted for its medicinal and cosmetic properties.
1807, William Nicholson, editor,A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts, volume XVIII,page286:
With weld and cochineal, which are colouring matters the most sensible to the action of sulphate of iron, the purifiedalums gave us colours more brilliant, fresh, and in a slight degree lighter; while those with our commonalums were all duller, and evidently of a deeper hue.
For similar reasons, aluminium sulphate andalums are used in dyeing cloth.[…]Normallyalums are soluble in water and insoluble in alcohols.
2005, Amit Arora,Text Book Of Inorganic Chemistry,page386:
In structure, thealums consist of simple ions, being not complexes, but double salts. Potashalum or potassiumalum is the commonalum, with the formula KAl(SO4)2·12H2O) which, for convenience, may be written K2SO4·Al2(SO4)3·24H2O
(Canada,US) A pastattendee orgraduate (of any gender) of a college, university or other educational institution.
1961 Spring,Anchora of Delta Gamma, Volume LXXVII, No. 3,page 59,
Evanston-North Shorealums are happy to open their homes to Sigma actives for special social events.
2006, Ted Hart, James M. Greenfield, Pamela M. Gignac, Christopher Carnie,Major Donors: Finding Big Gifts in Your Database and Online,page47:
You'll remember that we're starting with a list of slightly over 7,000 names that arealums (most of them over 50) that we'd like to whittle down to a manageable list of prospects.
2009, Timothy C. Jacobson,Charity & Merit: Trinity School at 300,page190:
All schools that last havealums, and, ancient as it was by American standards, Trinity by mid-century had thousands.
2024 June 5, Shirley Li, “This Show Understands the Absurdity of Modern Existence”, inThe Atlantic[1], archived fromthe original on5 June 2024:
“It breaks my heart to see them naked, undignified, shivering in the cold as they swallow our daily filth,” proclaims the woman, played by theSaturday Night Livealum Aidy Bryant.
2024 August 8, Jonathan van Harmelen, “The Little-Known Group That Pioneered Watergate’s Dirty Tricks—and Changed American Politics”, inTIME[2], archived fromthe original on14 August 2024:
While presidential elections have been marred by mudslinging since the early Republic, these USCalums deployed a particular type of dirty tricks: what became known as “ratf--king,” or the use of unscrupulous tactics to interfere with the campaigns of opponents. The tactics pioneered by members of Trojans for Representative Government and later CREEP set a precedent for the sort of organized political sabotage that has become commonplace today in a digital world, especially for Republicans.
