Volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally.
1Alcohol, ether, benzol, spirit of turpentine, and petroleum take fire on contact.
2The spirit of turpentine is much used by the inhabitants.
3Take with you a little bottle of spirit of turpentine, and pour it into one of your country ponds.
4Grind the white-lead in the oil, and add the spirits of turpentine.
5He reached for a bottle on the shelf labelled spirits of turpentine.
6It is better to add, also, a gill of spirits of turpentine.
7Ink Stains.-Wetwith spirits of turpentine; after three hours, rub well.
8For a black marble, nothing it better than spirits of turpentine.
9Cockroaches, and all vermin, have an aversion to spirits of turpentine.
10Rub the ivory handles which have become stained, with whiting and spirits of turpentine.
11Spirits of turpentine, three drachms; camphorated oil, nine drachms.
12Mix together two ounces spirits of turpentine, one ounce corrosive sublimate, and one pint alcohol.
13French spirits of turpentine is mainly composed of terebenthene.
14Taking these two points together, it is hardly possible to adulterate spirits of turpentine without detection.
15One bar of turpentine soap, three table-spoonfuls of spirits of turpentine, half a tumbler of water.
16Dissolve the beeswax in the spirits of turpentine, with a gentle heat, and mix the paint warm.
Translations for spirit of turpentine