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oil of vitriol

oil of vitriol noun: sulfuric acid.

Noun

oil of vitriol (uncountable)

  1. (dated) Sulfuric acid.
    Synonyms:
    vitriol

oil of vitriol meaning in Tamil and Arabic

oil of vitriol in Tamil

சல்பூரிக்கமிலம், துத்தத்தைலம்

oil of vitriol in Arabic

alternative name for "sulphuric acid"
زَيت الزّاج zayt az-zāj

Synonyms of oil of vitriol

Origin of oil of vitriol

So called from its oily consistency and from its forming the "vitriols" or sulfates. This term was coined by the 8th-century alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan, the chemical's probable discoverer.

Questions about oil of vitriol

What does oil of vitriol mean?
Oil of vitriol means sulfuric acid.
What is oil of vitriol in Tamil?
Oil of vitriol in Tamil is சல்பூரிக்கமிலம், துத்தத்தைலம். See Oil of vitriol meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is oil of vitriol?
Oil of vitriol is a noun.

Words near oil of vitriol in the dictionary

  1. oil of spike
  2. oil of talc
  3. oil of tartar
  4. oil of tartar per deliquium
  5. oil of turpentine
  6. oil of vitriol
  7. oil of wine
  8. oil of wintergreen
  9. oil olive
  10. oil opera
  11. oil operas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oil of vitriol (page history and authors); oil of vitriol (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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