Vitriol is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VITRIOL in dictionary:

VERB:
• to treat with sulfuric acid
• expose to the effects of vitriol or injure with vitriol
• subject to bitter verbal abuse
• attack or injure with or as if with vitriol
NOUN:
• bitter criticism or malice
• sulphuric acid
• in names of metallic sulphates, e.g. blue vitriol (copper sulphate) and green vitriol (ferrous sulphate).
• language expressing bitterness and hatred
• A sulphate of any one of certain metals, as copper, iron, zinc, cobalt. So called on account of the glassy appearance or luster.
• Sulphuric acid; -- called also oil of vitriol. So called because first made by the distillation of green vitriol. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric.
• (H2SO4) a highly corrosive acid made from sulfur dioxide; widely used in the chemical industry
• abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will

Words related to VITRIOL

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How to use VITRIOL in a sentence

• I went in from time to time, not to make large purchases, but mostly to make inquiries and to buy some blue vitriol, wire, or something of the kind.
• Anguish and rage in her heart were like vitriol dashed on a raw wound.
• It is like the face of a beautiful saint scarred with vitriol.
• One day he attacked an assistant surgeon, who was attached to the vessel, and the doctor repelled him by hurling a bottle of oil of vitriol at his head.
• Age had simply come and passed ugliness over her, like the people in Paris that she had read about in the paper who threw vitriol over their enemies.
• This is too slow for most plants so it is treated with oil of vitriol or sulphuric acid to make it available.
• When treated with the oil of vitriol or sulphuric acid, the sulphuric acid takes lime from the phosphate and forms sulphate of lime or gypsum.
• It can be burnt direct to sulphurous acid and utilized for the production of vitriol perfectly pure and free from arsenic, commanding a special price.
• His sketches, no more than a few pages in length, contain never an idle word, and the phrases bite like vitriol.
• The reaction is due to the decomposition of oil of vitriol by iodohydric acid, water and sulphurous acid being formed, and iodine set free.
• The blue vitriol is a sulphate of copper, and the white vitriol a sulphate of zinc.
• If that failed, he tried to throw vitriol in the eyes of the men whom he hated.
• The vitriol combines with the potash of the soap, and the iron oxide is precipitated with the fatty acid as insoluble iron soap.
• If zinc and copper are used, the solution is made from water and blue vitriol.
• Make a solution of one part of oil of vitriol and 5 parts of water and pour this mixture into the porous cell.
• Make a strong solution in a glass or wooden vessel of blue vitriol in water.
• Connect the two wires and pour the dilute acid into the porous cell around the zinc, and then immediately turn the blue vitriol solution into the can outside the paper cup.
• Some remarks burned into his sensitive nature as vitriol burns into metal.
• For long, green vitriol was confused with blue vitriol, which generally occurs as an impurity in crude green vitriol.
• These particles would carry with them the more volatile part of the vitriol, which would effect a cure more readily than when combined with the grosser part of the vitriol.
• This we now know to be due to the fact that the copper originally contained in the vitriol is thrown out of solution, whilst the iron takes its place.
• But when the name callers and all their tacit accomplices shot their arrows and threw buckets of vitriol at the fat girl and the girl with glasses, her wrath was also implacable.
• The office of a Review is not usually provided with the means of subjecting literature to such critical tests as lye, vitriol, boilers, and hot ovens.

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