Cyclopædia
Assuming oil is required, the following 41 results were found.
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ALKALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKALY
which being poured on Syrup of Violets, change it of a green Colour, are Alkalies; as those which turn it red, Acids. Thus Oil of Tartar turns it of a kindly green; and Oil of Vitriol of a Carmine red: And if to the Syrup thus made red by Oil of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chymistry
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EXPRESSED Oilshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/EXPRESSED-Oils
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ACIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACID
according to the different Matters it happens to be united with, produces different Kinds of Bodies: if it meets a fossil Oil, it converts it into Sulphur; if it is received into the Lapis Calaminaris, it coagulates with it, and becomes Alum; with Iron...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR
ways of doing this, the fittest for practice, he observes, 'are Fermentation, Corrosion, Dissolution, Decomposition; the boiling of Waters and other Fluids; and the mutual Action of Bodies, especially saline ones, upon each other.' Hist. of Air.—He...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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AMBERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AMBER
etc., a yellow transparent Substance, of a gummous or bituminous Form and Consistence, but a resinous Taste, and a smell like Oil of Turpentine; chiefly found in the Baltic Sea, along the Coasts of Prussia, etc. Naturalists are infinitely divided as to...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Natural History
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PETRE Oilhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/PETRE-Oil
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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JARR of Oilhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/JARR-of-Oil
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ETHERIAL Oilhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ETHERIAL-Oil
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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MEDULLARY Oilhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/MEDULLARY-Oil
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ALMONDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMOND
are much prescribed in Emulsions, and found of good effect in all Disorders from choleric and acrimonious Humours.—The Oil of Sweet Almonds, drawn without Fire, is a safe and useful Remedy in nephritic Pains. It is also of good repute for Costiveness...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ETHEREALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ETHEREAL
in open Air: From the same Principle arises the Cohesion of Bodies, &c. Lexic. Philosoph. Voc. Ether. See MEDIUM. ETHEREAL Oil, is a fine, subtle Oil, approaching nearly to the Nature of a Spirit. See OIL. : Thus, the pure Liquor rising next after the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ASPIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPIC
ASPICOil of Aspic, vulgarly called Oil of Spike,is an inflammable Oil drawn from the Leaves and Flowers of a Plant frequent in the Southern Parts of France, resembling Lavender, and by the Botanists called Lavandula Mas. See ORN. It is much used by...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ANNIS SEEDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNIS%20SEED
Wind; but also as a Pectoral, Stomachic, and Digestive. See CARMINATIVE, etc. It also yields by Distillation, a white cordial Oil called Essence of Aniseed; of a very strong penetrating Smell, and efficacious in its medicinal Operation: It being also...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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BEECH-OILhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/BEECH-OIL
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ALLUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLUM
and Lancashire. "This Stone they calcine on a Hearth or Kilns then steep it successively in several Pits of Water: then boil it for about 24 Hours: Lastly, letting it stand for about two Hours; the Impurities subside, and leave a pure Liquor; which,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ANIMALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMALS
or firm parts, as Flesh, Bones, Membranes, etc., and Fluids, as Blood, etc.:The Solids are mere Earth, bound together by some Oily Humour; and accordingly are reducible by Fire into such Earth again. See EARTH, FIRE, SOLIDS, etc. Thus, a Bone being...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ANTIMONYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ANTIMONY
purging Flowers of Antimony. See DIAPHORETIC ANTIMONY. Butter of Antimony, is a white, gummous Liquor; otherwise called Icy Oil of Antimony. It is usually prepared of crude (though sometimes of Regulus of) Antimony, and corrosive Sublimate, by...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Natural History
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ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION
of phenomena and experiments, which plainly argue such powers and actions between the particles, e.g. of salts and water, oil of vitriol and water, aqua fortis and iron, spirit of vitriol and saltpetre.—He also shows, that these powers, etc., are...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Mechanics
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ASCENT OF FLUIDShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENT%20OF%20FLUIDS
happens as well in vacuo as in the open Air, and in crooked as well as straight Tubes. — Some Liquids, as Spirit of Wine, and Oil of Turpentine, ascend swifter than others; and some rise after a different manner from others. Mercury does not ascend at...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ATTRAHENTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTRAHENTS
Kinds of Fats, or Adipes; the Dungs of Pigeons and Cows; Bran, Yeast, Herring, the Sucking of a Leech, Melilot, Tobacco, Oil, Pitch, Rosin, Frankincense, etc. See each under its proper Articles, FAT, ADEPS, HERRING, OIL, PITCH, ROSIN, FRANKINCENSE, etc....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified