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_ -- Soluble sulphates which form harmless sulpho-carbolates in the blood should be administered at once.
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Sulphide of ammonium gives sulpho-cyanide of ammonium.
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The compound consists of two parts of sulpho-carbolate of zinc, twenty-five parts of distilled glycerine, twenty-five parts of rose-water, and five parts of scented alcohol, and is to be applied twice daily for from half an hour to an hour, then washed off with cold water.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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The similar colour produced by sulpho-cyanide of potassium and perchloride of iron is discharged by chloride of gold and corrosive sublimate.
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Knowing that sulpho-carbolate of zinc is a deadly enemy to all parasitic vegetation (itself not being otherwise injurious), he applied this salt for the purpose of removing the freckles.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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If the dry gas is passed slowly into fuming sulphuric acid, a sulpho-derivative results, of which the potash salt may be thrown down by means of alcohol.
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield
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Dr Mühlhäusen is of opinion that possibly in the former case a sulpho-group may be formed, which in small quantity may occasion this instability.
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It is also made commercially by melting carbolic acid, and mixing it with strong sulphuric acid, then diluting the "sulpho - carbolic" [A] acid with water, and afterwards running it slowly into a stone tank containing nitric acid.
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Boutnny and Faucher, of Vonges, [A] proposed to prepare nitro-glycerine by mixing the sulphuric acid with the glycerine, thus forming a sulpho-glyceric acid, which was afterwards mixed with a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids.
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To effect a cure, the spinach diet -- called by the French "the broom of the stomach" -- was fed, and the coat washed with a weak sulpho-naphtha solution.
The Boston Terrier and All About It A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding of the American Dog Edward Axtell
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