The use of methylated spirit in the preparation of tinctures, sweet spirit of nitre, common ether, or any medicine to be used internally, is now prohibited by law.
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.
Methylated spirit, being sold duty free, can be employed by the chemical manufacturer as a solvent in many processes for which, from its greater cost, duty-paid spirit would be commercially inapplicable.
Footnote 254: Methylated spirit is now generally used for making spirit varnishes, in place of duty-paid alcohol.
In lozenge form this latter body is used by combustion of methylated spirit to produce the gas.
Dehydrate by rinsing in methylated spirit, dry, and mount.
The other day you tried to make out I'd taken cook's methylated spirit when I said I hadn't.
Now, Master Guy," she began, "what business had you got to go and take all my methylated spirit?
The skin should be hardened by daily applications of methylated spirit.
They are next washed for three minutes in methylated spirit to dehydrate the skin, and then for two or three minutes in 70 per cent.
The raw surface is then cleansed with eusol, washed with sterilised salt solution followed by methylated spirit, and rubbed all over with "bipp" paste.
The day before operation the skin, after being washed with soap and water, is shaved, dehydrated by means of methylated spirit, and then painted with a 5 per cent.
The danger of freezing in very severe weather may be prevented by the use of calcium chloride, or preferably, perhaps, methylated spirit in the water (cf.
It is best supplied in the form of an alcoholic solution made by dissolving a few grains in about half a pint of methylated spirit; the advantage of this over an aqueous solution being the rapidity with which it dries.
Methylated spirit is a good hardening reagent, and many of the soft structures that have been preserved in this fluid, especially if it has been used undiluted, will be found sufficiently hard for cutting thin sections.
One day his mother, having run short of methylated spirit, for her teakettle, sent him with a bottle to buy some more.
Now, the hostesses in their enthusiasm to be hospitable had foolishly forgotten that it is one thing to stir a pan over a methylated spirit lamp, and quite another to hold it over a camp-fire.
A cheaper and equally effective hardening medium is made by dehydratingmethylated spirit by adding one ounce of fused carbonate of potassium to each pint of methylated spirit, and decanting.
It will also effect a great saving if articles that are used in any quantity, such as methylated spirit, distilled water, &c.
The brown-hard varnish which is used at the present time is made differently, and produces a better result; it is made from the following: 1 gallon of methylated spirit, 32 ozs.
A few years since the brown-hard varnish was made from these ingredients: 1 gallon of methylated spirit, 40 ozs.
The white-hard or transparent varnish for white wood is made with 1 gallon of methylated spirit, 32 ozs.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "methylated spirit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
