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Pyroligneous

adjective
1.
Of a substance produced by the effect of heat on wood, especially by destructive distillation.  Synonym: pyrolignic.



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"Pyroligneous" Quotes from Famous Books



... a year afterwards, the hard ground of a mountain bivouac, with its pitiful portion of pickled cork-tree yclept mess-beef, and that pyroligneous aquafortis they call corn-brandy have been my hard fare, I often looked back to that day's dinner with a most heart-yearning sensation,—a turbot as big as the Waterloo shield, a sirloin that seemed cut from the sides of a rhinoceros, a sauce-boat that contained an oyster-bed. There was a turkey, ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever
... Pyroligneous acid, both pure and variously diluted with water. This had but a very limited effect, even in destroying the foetor; and I am by no means sure that it was of any use in arresting ...
— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various


Words linked to "Pyroligneous" :   pyrolysis


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