gas liquor

noun

, Chemistry.

1. ammonia liquor.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gas liquor¹

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

Four miles west of town, in the evening’s deepening chill, McCandless pitched his tent on a patch of hard-frozen ground surrounded by birch trees, not far from the crest of a bluff over-looking Gold Hill Gas & Liquor.

From Literature

The second liquid product of the destructive distillation of coal is the ammoniacal or gas liquor, which consists of water containing ammonia salts in solution, partly condensed from the hot gas, and partly added to wash the gas in the scrubbers.

From Project Gutenberg

In Illinois, Democratic Governors and Republican legislatures have long been unable to agree on basic tax changes, turned instead to a hodgepodge of sales, racetrack, gas, liquor, cigarette and utility taxes.

From Time Magazine Archive

The gas liquor thus supplies food to a minute organism which converts the ammonia into a form available for the higher plants.

From Project Gutenberg

COAL-TAR, the black, viscous, sometimes semi-solid, fluid of peculiar smell, which is condensed together with aqueous “gas liquor” when the volatile products of the destructive distillation of coal are cooled down.

From Project Gutenberg