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What is a sulfite?

What is a sulfite? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (inorganic chemistry) Any salt of sulfurous acid.
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As soon as you stir in the sulfite, you will see the same sort of precipitate that you see when mixing Formulary Rodinal.
What you are describing sounds suspiciously like a reaction to the preservative sulfite.
But the sulfite liquors of the paper mills are being worked up successfully into industrial alcohol.
Smoking an empty bottle with a sulfur candle to sterilize it requires them to list sodium sulfite on the label.
The Lootens formula keeps sulfite content low, uses very little bromide, and adds small amounts of citric acid and potassium thiocyanate.
More than a mere trace of the precipitate proves that some sulfite was used to preserve the meat.

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