资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Microcosmic \Mi`cro*cos"mic\, Microcosmical \Mi`cro*cos"mic*al\,
   a. [Cf. F. microcosmique.]
   Of or pertaining to the microcosm.

   {Microcosmic salt} (Chem.), a white crystalline substance
      obtained by mixing solutions of sodium phosphate and
      ammonium phosphate, and also called
      {hydric-sodic-ammonic-phosphate}. It is a powerful flux,
      and is used as a substitute for borax as a blowpipe
      reagent in testing for the metallic oxides. Originally
      obtained by the alchemists from human urine, and called
      {sal microcosmicum}.