The alcoholic strength of the drier wines ranges from 18° of proof spirit upwards, or slightly above the ordinary Bordeaux, and under all the better-class Rhine wines.
The alcoholic strength is equivalent to rather more than 20° of proof spirit, and the highest quality wine is remarkable for its excessive dryness in comparison with all other samples of Italian sparkling wines that we have met with.
Their alcoholic strength is equivalent to from 25° to 26° of proof spirit, being largely above the dry sparkling wines of the Champagne, which the Jura manufacturers regard as a positive advantage rather than an obvious drawback.
The Sonoma valley vineyards produce the lightest wines of all the Californian growths, some of the white varieties indicating merely 15° of proof spirit, and the red ones no more than 17½°.
A solution of sal-ammoniac, 1 part; in proof spirit, 4 parts.
It must never be employed when the skin is broken or abraded; and it would be wise, in most cases, to dilute it with double its volume of proof spirit.
The female then dies, withers and falls away or is expelled by ulceration.
The eggs are not laid in the flesh of the victim, as is sometimes stated, but are expelled through this opening.
According to Fulleborn (1908) they do not penetrate beneath the epidermis.
If proof spirit be employed instead of water, we shall then have the relation of very nearly 20 to 19.
Common alcohol, or proof spirit, as it is called, contains about one half its weight of water.
In the United States "proof spirit is defined by law to be that mixture of alcohol and water which contains one half of its volume of alcohol, the alcohol when at a temperature of 60° Fahrenheit being of specific gravity 0.
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