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white liquor

American  

noun

  1. (in making wood pulp for paper) the chemicals used to digest the wood, basically sodium hydroxide and sodium hyposulfite.


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The explosion occurred due a "rupture of a tank containing white liquor", the company said in a statement.

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

The milky white liquor is decanted into a copper kettle, made to be poured into copper rice bowls, as a nod to its history as a farmer's alcohol commonly brewed at home with rice.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2023

China’s second-biggest maker of white liquor by market value, gained 2 percent to 32.60 yuan.

From BusinessWeek ● Apr. 25, 2011

When you will serve the potage in, pour the white liquor upon the swelled and gellied-bread, and let them stew together a little upon the Coals.

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Anne MacDonell

The cleansing fluid or "white liquor" is introduced at the center of the basket and is hurled against and passes through the sugar wall left from draining.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 by Various

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