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- n. obsolete, inorganic chemistry antimony trichloride
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Lavoiſier
The Father of Chemiſtry, whose work in English is today ſolely extant in reprints from the 1700s, occaſioning much merriment among Johannine laboratory ſtudents. The uſe of long ſ, however, is not ...
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ruzuzu This shows up in the Century's definition for browning, where it talks about "|c|hlorid or butter of antimony, called bronzing-salt." Mar 24, 2013
milosrdenstvi Said list now found at Lavoiſier. Apr 9, 2010
ruzuzu Yes, please! Whenever I hear Lavoisier's name, I'm reminded of how he did such important work with oxygen and was then gruesomely deprived of his right to breathe it. I'd love to see a list that could help me associate him with other, better things. Jan 7, 2010
yarb I love this; how about a Lavoisier list, milos? Jan 7, 2010
milosrdenstvi Oooh! An old name for a mineral! These are all over Lavoisier (who is great fun to read). Also fun: flowers of zinc, butter of arsenic, martial ethiops, oil of vitriol, Venus crystals, salt of alembroth, phagadenic water, dephlogisticated air, liver ore, magister of bismuth, mineral butter, and lunar caustic.
Butter of antimony, if memory serves, is antimony trichloride. Jan 7, 2010