Evidence given suggests that there were no other obvious candidates as fuel for the explosion; no oils, no naphtha nor oils of vitriol.
2.
To get out of work the day he was to escape, Brown burned his hand to the bone with oil of vitriol ( sulfuric acid ).
3.
Sulfuric acid was called " oil of vitriol " by medieval European alchemists because it was prepared by roasting " green vitriol " ( iron ( II ) sulfate ) in an iron retort.
4.
This newspaper report included in The Horwood Book goes on to document multiple attacks on Ms Balsom by Horwood through 1820 and 1821 including throwing oil of vitriol ( sulphuric acid ) at her.
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:: : " Vitriolic aire " is not a common term for me, but as sulfuric acid is called " oil of vitriol " I'll assume that it is SO3.
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He is also widely credited with developing a method for synthesizing ether ( which he called by the poetic Latin name " oleum dulci vitrioli ", or " sweet oil of vitriol " ).
7.
When Eve Ferrier appears at the Hotel du Rh�ne, where Innes had been dining with Sir Gerald Hathaway, she proves to be carrying a perfume bottle filled with oil of vitriol, apparently to her own surprise.
8.
He called it " oleum dulce vitrioli ", a name that reflects the fact that it is synthesized by distilling a mixture of ethanol and sulfuric acid ( known at that time as oil of vitriol ).
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He showed that ammonia could be obtained by the action of alkali on sal-ammoniac ( ammonium chloride ), described the production of hydrochloric acid by acidifying brine of common salt ( sodium chloride ), and created oil of vitriol ( sulfuric acid ), among other achievements.
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In 1772, Priestley published a paper entitled " Impregnating Water with Fixed Air " in which he describes dripping " oil of vitriol " ( or sulfuric acid as it is now called ) onto chalk to produce carbon dioxide gas, and encouraging the gas to dissolve into an agitated bowl of water.
