单词 | rectified spirit of wine |
释义 | > as lemmasrectified spirit (also spirits) of wine rectified spirit n. Chemistry (also in plural) (more fully rectified spirit (also spirits) of wine, ) a mixture of ethanol and water purified by repeated distillation; spec. an azeotropic mixture containing 95.6 per cent alcohol by volume. ΚΠ 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster v. i. sig. K2 I iudge him of a rectified spirit,..refin'd From all the tartarous Moodes of common Men. View more context for this quotation] 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke v. sig. Rv Into euery one of them, put of the rectified spirit of wine, so much, as that it may stand ouer it three fingers thicke. 1663 R. Boyle Some Consid. Vsefvlnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. (1664) II. 348 To keep the rectified Spirit..is more uneasie, than any thing but trial would make one think. ?1708 Brit. Apollo: Q. Paper 1 No. 2. 3/1 A Varnish compos'd of Rectify'd Spirits and Gums. 1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 85 Add..three Ounces of rectify'd Spirits of Wine. 1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 376 A fine light transparent liquid, known in commerce by the name of rectified spirits. 1875 A. S. Taylor Poisons (ed. 3) 569 Nepenthe may be regarded as a solution of opium and citrate of morphia, in nearly equal parts of sherry and rectified spirit. 1955 B. C. L. Kemp Elem. Org. Chem. (new ed.) vi. 75 The crude alcohol..is subjected to careful fractional distillation, two stages of which may be necessary to produce rectified spirit. 2000 Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nexis) 27 Oct. 5 She offers a concoction of Myrrh, Pimpernel water, elder-flower water, musk and rectified spirits of wine. < as lemmas |
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