Significados de menstruum em inglês

Nitro-Muriatic Acid.-AquaRegia is a compound menstruum invented by the alchemists for dissolving gold.

These colloids appear to be separated by amyl alcohol in virtue of their greater solubility in that menstruum.

Impure spirits of 40° Gay-Lussac, and not water, should be used as a menstruum for the salt of copper.

The aromatics and bitter tonics are useful; gentian and tea in warm decoction form a useful menstruum for other remedies.

But it is time to carry out the last step, which is to place them in a very different menstruum, altogether more reactive.

Water is necessary, not only for digestion, nutrition, and all functional processes of life, but it is indispensable as a menstruum for medicinal substances.

When hard-boiled white of egg is kept in warm water, it absorbs a considerable quantity of that menstruum, as much as several units per cent.

Nothing but the sharpest essence of villany, compounded with the strongest distillation of folly, could have produced a menstruum that would have effected a separation.

"The menstruum of a human female," he announced, "only a few minutes old!"