turpentine

How To Use turpentine In A Sentence

• The scent of turpentine and oil paint drifts through his open window from his neighbor's house.
• Confederate stuffed port-fires with turpentined cotton and shot them into rollers only a few yards off. Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray
• To perform this experiment a little oil of turpentine was placed at the bottom of a glass tube surrounded with boiling liquid air.
• The paintings have the appearance of palimpsests, with rubbed-out passages, and residues of paint and turpentine streaming down the canvas.
• To light their homes, early Americans relied on tallow candles, floating tapers that burned assorted greases, and lamps that burned fuels such as lard and turpentine.
• The turpentine is the product which passes off as vapor, and the rosin is the mass left in the boiler after the distillation of the turpentine. General Science
• It is, however, not the product "turpentine" that is most esteemed by the natives, but the fruit of the tree, a kind of drupe disposed in clusters. Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881
• There is a striking difference between the smells of limonene's two isomers: (+) limonene has a fresh orange smell whereas (-) limonene smells more like turpentine.
• A washy monochrome, its broad rectangles of turpentine-thinned burnt sienna lack not only the powerful materiality of the other paintings, but the intensity of fully saturated color as well.
• Oil of turpentine, four ounces; camphor, six drachms; oil of cajeput, two drachms. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889