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Example sentences for "blue vitriol"

  • These Pyrites being first roasted, and then exposed to the air for a year or two, do also yield Vitriol; but then it is not a pure Vitriol of Iron, but is combined with a portion of blue Vitriol, the basis of which is Copper.

  • These crystals are called Blue Vitriol, or Vitriol of Copper.

  • Can the discharge from the urethra be soon stopped by saturnine injections, or mercurial ones, or with solution of blue vitriol, at first very dilute, and gradually made stronger?

  • For the healing of ulcers, if in the mouth, solution of alum in water about 40 grains to an ounce, or of blue vitriol in water, one grain or two to an ounce may be used to touch them with three or four times a day.

  • Verdigris, blue vitriol, and alkalies, turn it more on the blue; whilst a mordant of tin imparts a violet cast.

  • A mordant of blue vitriol is commonly first given, followed by a bath of prussiate of potash.

  • If fungous granulations appear, they must be removed by touching them with nitrate of silver or blue vitriol.

  • The addition of the water restores the blue color, thus proving that water was necessary to the composition of blue vitriol.

  • Place it in a hot solution of blue vitriol, strong as above, and the threads will be covered with beautiful blue crystals, while the glass rod will be bare.

  • Then the solution of blue vitriol, when a wax ball floats upon it.

  • When the continuous discharges from the Leyden jar are made to pass through the centre of a large lump of crystal of alum, blue vitriol, or ferroprussiate of potash, &c.

  • A little solution of blue vitriol, or a little spirits of turpentine--either followed by a coating of warm tar--promptly cures it.

  • The foot is then treated with the solution of blue vitriol, and subsequently coated over with tar which has been boiled, and is properly cooled, for the purpose of protecting the raw wound from dirt, flies, etc.

  • In the first and second stages of the disease, before the ulcers have formed sinuses into the sole, and wholly or partly destroyed its structure, the best application is a saturated solution of blue vitriol--sulphate of copper.

  • Copper sulphate (blue vitriol) is the most important chemical compound of copper.

  • When the dough does not rise well in the fermentation (le pain pousse plat), this inconvenience was found to be obviated by the addition of blue vitriol, which was supposed also to cause the flour to retain more water.

  • On the other hand, 4 parts of blue vitriol and 1 part of copperas are to be dissolved separately in hot water.

  • Make a strong solution in a glass or wooden vessel of blue vitriol in water.

  • And if there be proud flesh, it should be touched with a bit of blue vitriol, or sprinkled with a little burnt alum.

  • In the Daniell cell the zinc plate is in dilute sulphuric acid, and the copper plate is in a solution of blue vitriol or copper sulphate.

  • By placing crystals of blue vitriol in the battery jar, the solution of blue vitriol can be kept up to its full strength for a very long time.

  • Another remedy is to use spirits of turpentine after scraping; and if the disease is of long standing, add to the turpentine a strong decoction of blue vitriol dissolved in water.

  • The claw is efficiently cleansed, by drawing a cord briskly through it, when either of the above applications, or blue vitriol put on two or three times a day, or spirits of turpentine, will effect a cure.

  • This solution was made by dissolving in water crystals of "blue vitriol" which we bought at the drug store.

  • Blue vitriol, or copper sulphate as the chemists would call it, is a substance which forms glassy blue crystals.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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