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
When heated with sodium and absolute alcohol, it is converted into hydrocoumarone, C8H8O, and ethyl phenol.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
The preparations, fixed in absolute alcohol, or by short heating, stain in from half-an-hour to two hours.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.
It is soluble in amylic alcohol, scarcely so in absolute alcohol.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
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