Definition of Blue vitriol

1. Noun. Hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulfate.


Definition of Blue vitriol

1. Noun. (obsolete chemistry) copper sulfate ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Vitriol

blue story
blue straggler
blue stragglers
blue succory
blue supergiant
blue supergiants
blue swimmer crab
blue thistle
blue tit
blue toadflax
blue toe syndrome
blue tulip
blue violet
blue vision
blue vitriol (current term)
blue wall
blue wall of silence
blue walleye
blue water
blue waters
blue whale
blue whales
blue white colour selection
blue wildebeest
blueback
blueback salmon
bluebacks
bluebag
blueball

Literary usage of Blue vitriol

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1856)
"The two most commonly known are the SULPHATE or blue vitriol, and the SUBACETATE or VERDIGRIS. These substances have been frequently taken and administered ..."

2. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp (1916)
"Copper sulphate, blue vitriol, or "bluestone," CuSO4 • 5 H2O, is now largely obtained as a ... 3) (CuSO4 + CuO) + H2SO4 = 2 CuSO4 + H2O. blue vitriol ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"Turning now, for example, to a compound like blue vitriol whose composition we are ... So far as the water content of blue vitriol crystals is concerned, ..."

4. Manual of Chemical Technology by Johannes Rudolf Wagner (1904)
"In order to separate the iron sulphate from the crude blue vitriol, ... According to Bacco's plan, the crude blue-vitriol is dissolved in water, ..."

5. The Mineral Industry (1902)
"THE original experimental plant that was constructed for the American Smelting & Refining Co., at Argentine,-Kan., for the manufacture of blue vitriol has ..."

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