gallic

• Other elements also are used, such as gallic acid, alum, sulphate of iron, and copper, salt, and other agents What are the chemicals for Illustration: Fig. —  The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island
• It is an equally strange fact, that, though acetic and propionic acids are highly poisonous, their ally, formic acid, is not so; and that, whilst certain vegetable acids, namely oxalic, benzoic, &c.;, are poisonous in a high degree, gallic, tannic, tartaric, and malic (all diluted to an equal degree) are not so. —  Insectivorous Plants
• All day they sat upon deck chattering as only their lively nation can chatter, indulging in ultra-gallic maxims, such as "on ne vieillit jamais a table;" now playing ecarte for love or nothing, then composing "des ponches un peu chiques;" now reciting adventures of the category "Mirabolant," then singing, then dancing, then sleeping, and rising to play, to drink, talk, dance, and sing again. —  Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah ; Meccah — Volume 1
• We mix a solution of nitrate of silver and of pyro-gallic acid in about equal quantities, and pour it upon the pictured film and back again into the vessel, repeating this with the same portion of fluid several times. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
• Other elements also are used, such as gallic acid, alum, sulphate of iron, and copper, salt, and other agents. " —  The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island

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