Macerate in a closed percolator for 4 days, and then let the percolation commence, and finish it by adding more menstruum until 24 oz.
At the expiration of this time remove the cork, and add more menstruum by degrees until the material is exhausted.
Free from grit, and wholly soluble in 20 parts of the menstruum employed in its preparation, forming a nearly clear solution.
Thus, were it desired to form an essence of ambergris or of myrrh, and no formulae could be found for these preparations, the tyro would consider in what menstruum the active principles of these substances were most soluble.
The loss after digestion in this menstruum expresses the weight of that metal, and the weight of the portion now remaining is that of the pure gold.
Its properties indicate that weak vinegar or sour wine would be the best menstruum for extracting the medicinal virtues of calumba root.
By adopting the method of maceration in vacuo, or in an atmosphere of carbonic acid, the menstruummay be allowed to lay in contact with the vegetable matter for an unlimited period, without decomposition taking place.
When the menstruum is water, a little spirit is added, to make the product keep.
Only by increasing the number and kind of interstices, can diluting a menstruum with water increase what is imagined to be its solvency.
In promoting the de-electrisation of every kind of body, and to the extreme, which no other individual medium or menstruumcan effect, consists the universal utility of the medium of fire.
Alcohol dissolves alkaloids, fatty and resinous substances, and is largely used as a menstruum in obtaining the active principles of drugs in an available form for administration.
That a universal chaotic menstruum should deposit a series of numerous sharply-defined strata, differing from one another in composition, is incomprehensible.
Then I again asked him: What the Menstruum was, and whether the Operations were made in Glasses, or in Crucibles.
A method of extracting the soluble portion of any substance in a divided state, by causing the menstruum to filter or strain through it.
When the material is too loosely packed, the menstruum passes through quickly, but without exerting its proper solvent action; when too great pressure is employed, percolation either progresses very slowly or not at all.
But in the preparation of medicines, containing spirit, as the vehicle or menstruum by which more active substances are administered, the employment of methylated spirit is highly improper.
The first menstruum is commonly employed for croton oil on the Continent; the second, for that of ergot of rye.
The spirit distilled from the essence forms a most suitable menstruum for making fresh essence or tincture of cayenne.
Now, this solvent or menstruum will exert in its own favour an affinity for the mordant, which will prove to that extent an obstacle to its attraction for the stuff.
In order to prevent the agglutination of the resin, it is often advantageously mixed with clean siliceous sand or pounded glass, by which the surface is much increased, and the solvent power of the menstruumgreatly promoted.
Oil seems to be the most potent menstruum of narcotine; for 3 grains dissolved in oil readily kill a dog, whether the dose be introduced into the stomach or into the jugular vein.
It is not durable, but soon changes in the menstruum into metallic gold, and peroxide.
The loss which it suffers in this menstruum is only one fortieth; showing that nothing but the colouring matter is abstracted.
The saponified fat now liberated from the lime, which is thrown down to the bottom of the tub in the state of sulphate, is skimmed off the surface of the watery menstruum into a third contiguous tub, where it is washed with water and steam.
This menstruum is applied to the washed, dried, and varnished plate, after it has suffered the ordinary action of aquafortis, in order to deepen and finish the delicate touches.
Bougies are also made entirely of caoutchouc, by the intervention of a solution of this substance in sulphuric ether, a menstruum sufficiently cheap in France, on account of the low duty upon alcohol.
Now this solvent or menstruum will exert in its own favour an affinity for the mordant, which will prove to that extent an obstacle to its attraction for the stuff.
The expense of this menstruum is the great obstacle to Baume's process.
The neutro-saline matter present in the spent lye is essential to the proper granulation and separation of the saponaceous compound; for otherwise the watery menstruum would dilute and even liquefy the soap.
It is not possible that flinty matter could be conveyed into the middle of those strata, by a menstruum in which it was dissolved, and thus deposited in that place, without the smallest trace of deposition in the surrounding parts.
From this fact it occurred to me that there might possibly be an affinity between the fixed air and the septic particles, and that this air might act as a menstruum on the effluvia emitted by putrid bodies.
Though lime water in several instances appears to be a more powerful menstruum to vegetables than distilled water; yet the latter is sometimes preferable, and acts more efficaciously than when impregnated with lime.
As a menstruum capable of dissolving them with greater facility appeared to be a desideratum, not only in pharmacy, but in other arts, particularly in that of dying blacks, I resolved to try Dr.
That a universal chaotic menstruum should deposit, one after another, numerous sharply-defined strata, differing from each other in composition, is incomprehensible.
The menstruum does not fail the fruit for nourishment Till it at the proper time comes to the light of day.
It is commonly said, that Spirit of Wine is the solvent of Oils and oily matters: but this proposition is too general; for there are several sorts of Oils and oily matters which this menstruum will not dissolve.
Resins, on the contrary, are more soluble in Spirit of Wine than the thin Oils drawn from them; and those Oils acquire the property of resisting that menstruum more and more obstinately the oftener they are rectified.
On the contrary, if the same Gum-resin be put into Spirit of Wine, thismenstruum will dissolve the Resin, and leave the Gum.
The reason is that extract of cannabis indica is almost insoluble in a menstruum such as that found in Bromidia.
In general, it appears that whatever virtues it has are due to some preparation of common thyme in a menstruum containing water, sugar and alcohol.
Illustration] The menstruum best adapted for electro-plating is a solution of silver in cyanide of potassium.
The water is the menstruumof the sapid, as the air is of odorous, bodies; and this indeed of necessity, because water and air are the antetypes of these mineral classes.
Out of an organic menstruum only can a new organism proceed, but not one organism out of the other.
In urea the muscle flows or runs out of the animal, in albumen the nerve, in lime and phosphorus the bone, in gelatine the tegumentary together with the visceral system, lastly, in water the menstruum of the digestion and respiration.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "menstruum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
