white vitriol

noun

another name for zinc sulphate

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How to use white vitriol in a sentence

Dissolve in the filtrate some white vitriol of the size of a pea.
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I | Arnold Cooley
At the same time use the following injection: Sulphate of zinc (white vitriol), two drams; sugar of lead, two drams.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information | Anonymous
The blue vitriol is a sulphate of copper, and the white vitriol a sulphate of zinc.
A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery | Benziger Brothers
white vitriol six grains dissolved in one ounce of water; a drop or two to be put between the eyelids twice a day.
Zoonomia, Vol. II | Erasmus Darwin
It is worked up partly into metallic zinc, and partly into the sulphate of zinc, or white vitriol.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines | Andrew Ure

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