| 单词 | bone charcoal |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbone charcoal bone charcoal n. †(a) a blackened tooth (obsolete); (b) a form of charcoal made by carbonizing bones; = bone black n.Sense (a) apparently represents an isolated use. ΚΠ 1679 ‘Misomastropus’ Bawds Tryal & Execution 2 Her Lips..served no longer as a Screen to hide her rotten Teeth; for those Bone-Charcoles burnt almost to dust with the liquid Fire of hot Drinks, appeared through her Tissany Lips, as black as Night. 1813 Belfast Monthly Mag. Mar. 237/1 In order to take away the colour of vinegar, a litre of the red sort, cold, is mixed in a glass vessel with forty-five grammes of bone charcoal. 1938 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. (ed. 4) II. 29/2 ‘Dippel's oil’..is obtained by the destructive distillation of bones in the preparation of bone charcoal. 2015 Esquire June 32/2 I have been making my own bone charcoal, which..is basically bones that have been gently burned down until they blacken and harden, becoming effective heating elements in and of themselves. < as lemmas |
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