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单词 white vitriol
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Definition of white vitriol in English:

white vitriol

noun
mass nounarchaic
  • Crystalline zinc sulphate.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • While Lewis ordered a few ounces of some other chemical drugs, such as magnesia, tartar emetic, and white vitriol, he asked for six pounds of ‘salts.’
    • These may be braced and strengthened by bathing the eye with brandy and water, Hungary-water, rose-water with white vitriol dissolved in it.
    • Some sulfates were formerly known as vitriols; blue vitriol is cupric sulfate, green vitriol is ferrous sulfate, and white vitriol is zinc sulfate.
    • Formerly it was ground finely in oil, either pure or with a mixture of white vitriol and added to the dark oil paints.
    • A viscous residue in the bottom of each and a foul smell that denoted combinations of alum with white vitriol, sulphate of iron, and of acetate of lead with opium and ipecac.
 
 

Definition of white vitriol in US English:

white vitriol

nounˌ(h)wīt ˈvitrēəl
archaic
  • Crystalline zinc sulfate.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Some sulfates were formerly known as vitriols; blue vitriol is cupric sulfate, green vitriol is ferrous sulfate, and white vitriol is zinc sulfate.
    • These may be braced and strengthened by bathing the eye with brandy and water, Hungary-water, rose-water with white vitriol dissolved in it.
    • Formerly it was ground finely in oil, either pure or with a mixture of white vitriol and added to the dark oil paints.
    • While Lewis ordered a few ounces of some other chemical drugs, such as magnesia, tartar emetic, and white vitriol, he asked for six pounds of ‘salts.’
    • A viscous residue in the bottom of each and a foul smell that denoted combinations of alum with white vitriol, sulphate of iron, and of acetate of lead with opium and ipecac.
 
 
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