"Oxidised" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dimethyl ketone, is formed when iso-propyl alcohol is oxidised with potassium bichromate and sulphuric. It is also produced in considerable quantities during the dry distillation of wood, and many other organic compounds. Crude wood spirit, which has been freed from acetic ...
— Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise • P. Gerald Sanford
... sent by Pope Gregory to St. Augustine, it must first have been sent to Rome from England, but internal evidence points to a much later date. It contains four very dark-purple or rather rose-coloured stained leaves, with inscriptions in letters of gold and silver an inch long, the silver being oxidised by age. It is one of the most precious examples of Anglo-Saxon caligraphy and illumination now existing. The half-uncial letters of English type are by different hands, and the miniatures are of different dates, that of the Lion ...
— Studies from Court and Cloister • J.M. Stone |
