absolute alcohol
Americannoun
noun
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Cold absolute alcohol drips into the balloon through attached tubing until the patient feels his stomach distended, as though after a heavy meal.
From Time Magazine Archive
The caustic which Dr. Cutler prefers is a "modified Carnoy's solution": absolute alcohol 6 c. c., chloroform 3 c. c., glacial acetic acid i c.c., ferric chloride 1 gm.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is soluble in amylic alcohol, scarcely so in absolute alcohol.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
Remove a cover-slip from the pot of absolute alcohol with sterile forceps; burn off the alcohol in the gas flame.
From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by J. W. H. (John William Henry) Eyre
When absolute alcohol, in which iodine has been dissolved, is poured upon finely divided aluminium in a flask, energetic action takes place and large quantities of hydrogen are evolved.
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
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