It is used as an ointment, as a solvent and vehicle for medicines, and as an adulterant in wine, beer, etc.
It is used as a cheapadulterant of sirups, beers, etc.
The commonest adulterant probably is cottonseed oil.
If the ash be alkaline, no acid except nitric could have been present, and this is seldom, if ever, used as an adulterant of vinegar.
Rape-cake is stated to be occasionally used as adulterant of the more costly linseed, but I have never met with an admixture of the two articles.
It is also a favourite adulterant for otto of rose, and is used as a source of geraniol.
This oil, which has what is generally termed a "tea-rose odour," is occasionally used as an adulterant for otto of rose.
Aspic oil, from the flowers of Lavandula spica, obtained from France and Spain, and extensively employed in perfuming household and cheap toilet soaps; also frequently found as an adulterant in lavender oil.
In these days of fraud and adulteration, nearly all the cheaper grades of tinware contain a greater or less amount of lead in their composition, which owing to its greater abundance and less price, is used as an adulterant of tin.
Cotton seeds, used as an adulterant to linseed cake, &c.
Jacquemin recommends the following as a very delicate test for the presence of carbolic acid when used as an adulterant for oil of cloves.
Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] By an examination of the ash the presence of any mineral adulterant may be detected.
Pure bread is only slightly stained by this solution; bread containing alum strikes a lavender, lilac, or purple colour, according to the quantity of the adulterant present.
Sugar, previously dyed with magenta, is sometimes used as an adulterantof crystallised magenta.
With mixtures in different proportions of oil of turpentine, the figures formed differently, taking more of the characteristics of the adulterant as it predominated.
Almond meal is sometimes used as an adulterant in ipecacuanha powder.
Starch of various kinds is a very common food adulterant and the experienced microscopist can estimate almost precisely, the proportions of different starches in a mixture, a feat which would sorely puzzle the chemist.
We have mentioned that starch of various kinds is a common adulterant of many foods and the budding food analyst might do worse than learn to recognise the various starch grains under the microscope.
The most common adulterant of the more valuable oils, like olive oil, is cotton-seed oil.
Dilute acetic acid, obtained from wood, is very frequently used as an adulterant of vinegar.
The adulterant having thus been recognized, further particulars are learned from the specific gravity of the oil as well as of the distillate.
Attention must also be drawn to the fact that the adulterant is frequently itself adulterated with oil of turpentine before being sold to the distillers of rose oil.
Before Parliament passed the Adulterant Act, some British coffee men used as fillers cacao husks, acorns, figs, and lupins, in addition to chicory and the other favorite fillers.
Vulcanized by heating with sulphur, it forms a widely used adulterant and substitute for rubber.
It is used as a substitute or adulterant for white lead in paints, and in making oxygen.
It was then in demand, it is said, as anadulterant of quinine.
And provided these adulterant oils are not good driers, the people engaged in floating them along the avenues of trade have simply to add a certain proportion of drying japan to O.
Its main recommendations as a linseed oil adulterant are tersely summed up by Terry as follows: The rapidity with which it oxidizes, and its good body, render it not unsuitable as a vehicle for paint.
The Turkish Government tried to check the spread of cottonseed oil by calling it an adulterantand prohibiting its mixture with olive oil.
In spite of this well-known fact we still sometimes read "poor food" articles in which glucose is denounced as a dangerous adulterantand even classed as a poison.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adulterant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
