"Oil of turpentine" Quotes from Famous Books
... same bile-stone were put into the weak spirit of marine salt, which is sold in the shops, and into solution of mild alcali; and into a solution of caustic alcali; and into oil of turpentine; without their being dissolved. All these mixtures were after some time put into a heat of boiling water, and then the oil of turpentine dissolved its fragments of bile-stone, but no alteration was produced upon those in the other liquids except ... — Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin |