| 单词 | vegetable sulphur |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvegetable sulphur vegetable sulphur n. now rare (a) an alchemical form of sulphur; (also) sulphur of vegetable origin; (now historical); (b) = vegetable brimstone n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other vegetable materials > [noun] > lycopodium witch meal1792 lycopodium1836 vegetable brimstone1838 lycopode1866 vegetable sulphur1887 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke ii. iv. sig. D3 They sought & indeuored to dissolue and breake his hard bonds, and by the benefit of vegetable Sulphur, and by the artificious working of the Balsam of life, to bring it to a perfect adequation. 1674 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 9 152 Niter, an undoubted Acid with a small proportion of Mineral or Vegetable Sulphur, is converted into a genuine fiery Alcali. 1735 T. Dallowe tr. H. Boerhaave Elements Chem. II. iii. clxxvii. 320 A true Metal, and that a very heavy one too, may, by the assistance of Fire, be dissolved by a vegetable Sulphur. 1770 C. Milne Bot. Dict. at Musci From the male flower of some of the mosses..is dispersed a prodigious quantity of yellow, sulphureous and inflammable dust, which..is known, like that of the pines, by the name of vegetable sulphur. 1887 Med. Bull. Oct. 290/2 The yellow sporules constituting the powder or pollen of the lycopodium, and known in Europe as vegetable sulphur, is an excellent application to a gangrenous wound. 1921 W. F. Ganong Textbk. Bot. for Colleges 505 These spores are very light and happen to be also very inflammable, on which account they have been used somewhat in fireworks, under the name ‘vegetable sulphur’. 1958 M. B. Hall Robert Boyle & 17th-cent. Chem. 87 A vegetable sulphur was possible to conceive only because the ash of vegetables gave an alkali which was commonly considered ‘sulphureous’. < as lemmas |
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