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Vitriolate   Listen
verb
Vitriolate  v. t.  (past & past part. vitriolated; pres. part. vitriolating)  (Old Chem.)
(a)
To convert into, or change to, a vitriol; to make into sulphuric acid or a sulphate.
(b)
To subject to the action of, or impregnate with, vitriol.






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"Vitriolate" Quotes from Famous Books



... then stopping the Vial wherein the Ingredients were put, we let it stand in a quiet place for some dayes, and after many hours the water having dissolv'd a good part of the imperfectly calcin'd Body, the Vitriolate Corpuscles swiming to and fro in the Liquor, had time by their opportune Occursions to constitute many little Masses of Vitriol, which gave the water they impregnated a fair Vitriolate Colour; and this Liquor being pour'd off, the remaining dirty Powder did in process of time communicate the like ...
— Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664) • Robert Boyle



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