liver of sulphur

British  

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

Clysters of Harrowgate water are recomended, either of the natural, or of the factitious, as described below, which might have a greater proportion of liver of sulphur in it.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

Soda soda Alkaline liver of sulphur with fixed mineral alkali.

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

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 Joseph Priestley

Of these processes are the calcination of metals, a mixture of iron-filings and sulphur, liver of sulphur, the burning of phosphorus, and the effluvia of flowers.

From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley

Common air, I find, is diminished, and rendered noxious, by liver of sulphur, which the chemists say exhales phlogiston, and nothing else.

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

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