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1662 P. D. C. tr. N. Le Fèvre Compend. Body Chymistry II. ii. x. 255 An Emetical powder white and pure, which by some is called powder of Algarot, from Algorotto an Italian, which is said to be the Inventor thereof.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Algarot, a Chymical Preparation made of Butter of Antimony.

1708 tr. J. P. de Tournefort Materia Medica iv. i. 180 If you pour fair Water upon the Butter of Antimony, you will obtain a very fine white Powder..call'd the Powder of Algaroth.

1737 W. Barrowby tr. J. Astruc Treat. of Venereal Dis. II. v. 438 In the morning upon an empty Stomach, with half a grain of the powder of algarot.

1784 E. Cullen tr. T. Bergman Physical & Chem. Ess. I. 414 Two parts of Algaroth's powder obtained by water require seventy of tartar.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XV. 446/1 About three-fourths of it are soluble in marine acid, and afford Algoroth powder.

1808 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 98 59 The portion of powder of algoroth and sulphate of lead dissolved in the precipitating and washing waters, was scrupulously collected.

1860 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. (ed. 2) I. 639 Powder of algaroth.

1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xxxvi. 710 Antimony trichloride..dissolves in a small quantity of water, or in presence of hydrochloric acid, but on dilution is precipitated as a basic chloride, Powder of Algaroth, the principal constituent of which is an oxychloride, SbOCl.

1940 G. H. J. Adlam & L. S. Price Higher School Certificate Inorg. Chem. (ed. 2) xliii. 422 This is antimony oxychloride, or powder of algaroth.

2003 A. Fisk Cupid & Silent Goddess x. 119 I shall never understand alchemy, but nevertheless I shall never forget the poetry of the names of its materials: Powder of Algaroth, Glass of Antimony, [etc.].