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

When the writing with this fluid is exposed to the vapour of liver of sulphur, it will become quite black.

From Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments by Unknown

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 Priestley, Joseph

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

Sulphur wash is made by adding to every 10 gallons of warm paraffin emulsion or paraffin-naphthalene-emulsion 7 oz. of liver of sulphur, and stirring until the sulphur is well mixed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various

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