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/ɔɪl əv tˈərpəntˌaɪn/ Listen

Oil of turpentine

noun

Volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally. Synonyms: spirit of turpentine, turpentine, turps.

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... 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

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Words linked to "Oil of turpentine" : essential oil, volatile oil, gum terpentine