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Example sentences for "burning sulphur"

  • Wet a piece of dyed worsted or silk fabric and hang it in a quart bottle containing fumes of burning sulphur.

  • Animal fibers are best bleached by immersing in an aqueous solution of sulphurous acid or exposing them to fumes of burning sulphur.

  • The fumes of burning sulphur have an affinity for coloring matter--dyestuff.

  • It is time to stop when the vapours that rise from it, while it is moderately red, do not smell of burning Sulphur.

  • Sulphur in this compound; having separated from it a burning Sulphur, which cannot be mistaken for any other than the Sulphur of Antimony.

  • The best method yet found out for checking this fermentation, without injury to the fermenting liquor, is to impregnate it with the fumes of burning sulphur.

  • The furniture brokers put articles infested with these insects into a room with doors and windows fitting quite close, and subject them to the fumes of burning sulphur or chlorine gas.

  • In many cases a sufficient degree of renovation may be effected by simply exposing the articles, previously slightly moistened, to the fumes of burning sulphur, followed by passing them through a vessel of pure water.

  • Whiteness was an entity, inhering or sticking in the white substance: and so of all other qualities.

  • The only facts of which no explanation could be given but the will of God, were miracles properly so called.

  • When half dry, it must be exposed twice to the fumes of burning sulphur; and, after each operation, it is to be well stretched and smoothed; it should be finally dried in a state of tension.

  • The vapours of vinegar, the fumes of burning sulphur, explosion of gunpowder, have been long prescribed and practised, but they have in all probability little or no efficacy.

  • They are ready for the market immediately after being dried in the sun, and whitened with the fumes of burning sulphur.

  • This may be done by washing the underclothing in a disinfecting fluid, and then exposing them to a free current of air, and by subjecting the outer clothing to a very high temperature in an oven or to the fumes of burning sulphur.

  • Exposure to the fumes of burning sulphur, as in bleaching; the process of bleaching by exposure to the fumes of sulphur.

  • An apparatus for impregnating with, or exposing to the action of, sulphur; especially, an apparatus for fumigating or bleaching by means of the fumes of burning sulphur.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    burning coal; burning coals; burning fever; burning fiery; burning fire; burning sulphur; burning taste; church communion; custard made; eternal glory; flesh yellowish; green hair; heavy load; large mouth; lie down; more satisfactory; moving about; not know; particular class; public morals; religious significance; speak freely; there would; three miles from the; virulent poison; well served