absolute alcohol
Americannoun
noun
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Cold absolute alcohol drips into the balloon through attached tubing until the patient feels his stomach distended, as though after a heavy meal.
From Time Magazine Archive
The caustic which Dr. Cutler prefers is a "modified Carnoy's solution": absolute alcohol 6 c. c., chloroform 3 c. c., glacial acetic acid i c.c., ferric chloride 1 gm.
From Time Magazine Archive
To this cooled solution 25 cubic centimeters of absolute alcohol saturated with dry hydrochloric acid is added.
From Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by Thomssen, E. G.
It is insoluble in water, but soluble in absolute alcohol, ether and the fixed and volatile oils.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
When absolute alcohol, in which iodine has been dissolved, is poured upon finely divided aluminium in a flask, energetic action takes place and large quantities of hydrogen are evolved.
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
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