Spirit of Wine

Chemical Designations - Synonyms-. Alcohol Cologne spirit Denatured alcohol Ethanol Fermentation alcohol Grain alcohol Spirit Spirits of wine Chemical Formula CjHjOH. Observable Characteristics - Physical State (as normally shipped) Liquid Color Colorless Odor. Mild, pleasant Like wine or whiskey. (Denatured alcohol may be unpleasant). 

Alethylated spirit, or spirits of wine 60—70 over-proof, may generally replace the more costly absolute alcohol as a solvent after undergoing a process of purification. The methylated spirit must be of the old kind, co-nsisting of a mixture of 9 parts spirit of wine and i part purified wood-spirit, without the... 

Commercial absolute alcohol may be used for the preparations which follow. It Is obtained by distilling crude spirits of wine over quicklime, and usually contains about o 5 per cent, of water. 

Weingeist, m. (ethyl) alcohol, spirit of wine. — versiisster —, (Pharm.) spirit of nitrous ether. 

Wein-saure, /. tartaric acid acidity of wine, -schone, /. fining for wine, -sprit, m. spirit of wine, (ethyl) alcohol, -starkemesser, m. wine hydrometer, enometer. -stein, m. tartar. — roher —, crude tartar, wine stone, argol. — gereinigter. —, purified tartar, cream of tartar. 

Boyle, Robert. Dephlegmated spirit of wine. Parachemy 6, no. 3 (Summer 1978) 557-. fhttp //homepages.ihug.com.au/ panopus/parachemv/parachemyvi3.htm winel. From his Works (1627-1691)... 

Weidenfeld, Johann Seger von. Concerning the secrets of the adepts, or, Of the use of Lully s Spirits of Wine. I http //dhost.info/rubaphilos/books/weidenfeld.pdfl. 2005. Transcribed by Rubaphilos 2001. 

The language used will be the Queen s English or that subset of it as approved by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). Where chemical names are concerned there are some lost causes, such as caustic soda, where little would be gained if those who clean factories called this substance sodium hydroxide. Arguably, the name caustic soda conveys more useful information. Similar lost causes are spirits of wine (ethyl alcohol or ethanol) and spirits of salts (hydrochloric acid). While lipid chemists may insist on referring to triacylglycerols many people in industry continue to refer to triglycerides. Similarly trivial names for fatty acids such as lauric will continue to be used. The principle in all of this is to use the proper name but to mention other names that are in common use. 

Ethylene, the oil-forming gas , was prepared already in 1795 from spirits of wine and oil of vitriol by the five Dutch chemists, Deiman, Troostwyk, Bondt, Louwerenburgh, and Crells. 

Lion has been made out of the volatile blood of the Green Lion hence, they are of one nature, and the unfixed blood again renders that which is volatile fixed, and the fixed blood in its turn fixes that which is volatile, as it was before its solution. Then foster it in gentle heat, until the whole of the mercury is dissolved, and you obtain the second ferment (by nourishing the fixed sulphur with that which is not fixed), as all Sages unite with me in testifying. Afterwards this becomes, by sublimation with spirit of wine, of a blood-red colour, and is called potable gold. 

This I also say, that if the spirit of common salt be joined to the spirit of wine, and distilled together with it, it becomes sweet, and loses its acidity. This prepared spirit does not dissolve gold bodily, but if it be poured on prepared calx of gold, it extracts the essence of its colour and redness. If this be rightly done, it reduces the white and pure moon to the colour of that body from which it was itself extracted. The old body may also receive back its former colour through the love of alluring Venus, from whose blood it, in the first instance, derived its origin. 

The spirit of Wine doth very well serve to dulcifie the Spirit of Niter for being a Sulphur, it easily joyns with the acid points, and renders them uncapable of corroding as they did before. 

Spirit of Ether Nitrite Spirits of Turpentine Spirits of Wine Spotting Naphtha Spray Oil... 

It crystallizes from its hot alcoholic solution in large broad plates. It is soluble in pyroxyHc spirit, sulphide of carbon, and the fat and volatile oils, with the same facility as in spirit of wine it is very sparingly soluble... 

It is evident that other methods end reagents may be adopted. For example, the original solution In aqua regia may be concentrated by evaporation, until it is very much reduced in quentlty then add about throe-fourths of its bulk of spirit of wine, and, lastly, a saturated solution of chloride of ammonium. By these reagents the platinum will be thrown down as a yellow Crystalline precipitate, while the solution filtered from this, and treated with sulphate of iron or boiled with oxalic acid, deposits geld. 

Winckler Has given the following recipe for a green ink —Dissolve one hundred and eighty grains of bichromate of potassa in one fluid ounce of water add to 1 the menstruum, while warm, half an ounce of spirit of wine then decompose the mixture with concentrated sulphuric acid until it assumes a brown color. The liquor is now evaporated till it is reduced in quantity to one-half, when it ie diluted with two ounces of distilled water, filtered, mixed with half an ounce of alcohol, subsequently with a few drops of strong sulpliurio acid, and then allowed to rest till, after some time, it assumes a beautiful green color. It is finally adapted for use by the addition of a small quantity of gum-arabic. 

Wakbukton s method of effecting the purification of rape oil is by treatment with caustic alkali, ia which, the albuminous and other impurities are soluble, and are. separated, associated with soapy matters. In a suitable vessel, containing fifty-two parts of. caustic soda solution, of specific gravity 1-010, are to be put one hundred pounds of the refined oil those are to be stirred with a wooden ladle till well mixed. The mixture is then allowed to stand twenty-four hours undisturbed, in a cold place, after which it is then slowly warmed, and again well stirred. After twenty-four hours subsidence all the oil will have separated if such should not bo entirely the case, the complete separation may be effected by the addition of a small quantity of spirit of wine. The oil drawn off from the liquor is afterwards well washed with hot water, till the pure oil is obtained without taste or color, and if desired, may be passed through a filter. The soap which deposits may be used as an ordinary detergent... 

Tor use in the laboratory, hydrate of potassa, prepared as above, is treated with rectified spirit of wine in a stoppered bottle. The solution is allowed to deposit, decanted and evaporated in a silver dish, until fumes coase to be evolved, adding from time to time during the evaporation some water to prevent blacken-... 

Their process may be here advantageously although up by spirit of wine. It may he dissolved in absolute ... 

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