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.
〈古〉皓矾，七水（合）硫酸锌
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.