liver of sulphur

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noun

1. a mixture of potassium sulphides used as a fungicide and insecticide and in the treatment of skin diseases

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liver of sulphur

I repeated the preceding experiment with the same quantity of liver of sulphur, but with this difference that I only allowed the bottle to stand a week, tightly closed.

From Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2 by Scheele, Carl Wilhelm

Steep the grain or seed three or four hours, or a sufficient time for it to penetrate the skin, or husk, in a strong solution of liver of sulphur.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849

When the writing with this fluid is exposed to the vapour of liver of sulphur, it will become quite black.

From Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments by Unknown

Ammoniac ammoniac Volatile liver of sulphur, smoaking liquor of Boyle.

From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine

Nitrous air is as much diminished both by iron filings, and also by liver of sulphur, when confined in quicksilver, as when it is exposed to water.

From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Priestley, Joseph