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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Example Sentences

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 Priestley, Joseph

Potash potash Alkaline liver of sulphur with fixed vegetable alkali.

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

In the treatment of medicated baths, usually composed of that most evil-smelling compound liver of sulphur and water—in professional language, "a sulphuretted potash solution"—I own I have little or no faith.

From A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them by Williams, Mrs. Leslie

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 Lavoisier, Antoine

Another species of air absorbed by water, but not instantly, is termed hepatic air, being produced by the solution of liver of sulphur, or of sulphurated iron, in vitriolic or marine acid.

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