vitriol

It thenceforward became a matter of history that Felicite herself got up every night to sprinkle the poplar with vitriol.

Very soon they heard The Butcher's heavy footstep as he went out to get his raw meat and vitriol punch.

These were packed on a few mules, still left in the fort, in company with twenty-four kegs of brandy mixed with vitriol.

I calculated there was nothing weaker than vitriol in his cellar, so I begged to be excused.

Neither water nor acid of vitriol will separately dissolve iron, so as to produce inflammable air, but both together will do it.

Thus, the oil of vitriol mentioned above, though always used in practice, might be omitted without any disadvantage.

Put 20 drops of weak acid of vitriol into water to be drank at meals.

Nitric acid and hot oil of vitriol convert it into benzoic acid.

A paper besmeared with this syrup, was placed over a vessel which contained an effervescing mixture of chalk and oil of vitriol.

The apothecaries and hatters keep a compound of vitriol and indigo, commonly called 'blue composition.'