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vitriol <vitriol; vitriols> N

blue vitriol

green vitriol

vitriol ore MIN

white vitriol CHEM

zinc vitriol CHEM

oil of vitriol

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The crude ozokerite is refined by treatment first with oil of vitriol, and subsequently with charcoal, when the ceresine or cerasin of commerce is obtained.
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Besides the mines, in the middle of the 18th century a vitriol and sulphur works was established.
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Ore was processed all year round in four smelting furnaces, two sulphur furnaces and a vitriol works.
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Within days, opinion columns and social networking sites were flooded with derision and vitriol.
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Vituperation, or deeply seated ill will, vitriol.
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The novel is predominantly comic, with persistent melancholy and occasional vitriol also present.
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About 1760 there were already 7 vitriol plants in town, and by 1812 there were 24 distilleries in operation.
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I warn you fairly: you will find me vitriol in the house.
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Known since ancient times as copperas and as green vitriol, the blue-green heptahydrate is the most common form of this material.
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Liquid collyriums were composed of ophthalmic powders, or waters, such as rose-water, plantain-water, that of fennel, eyebright, etc, in which was dissolved tutty, white vitriol, or some other proper powder.
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