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Within medicine, a tincture is an alcoholic extract (e.g. of the herb) or solution of a notvolatile substance (e.g. of iodine, mercurochrome.) Solutions of volatile substances were called spirits, although that name was too given to many more materials found by distillation, even whilst it did non include alcohol. A few examples that were once commons around medicine include:
tincture of benzoin
tincture of cantharides
tincture of ferrous citrochloride (the chelate of citric acid and Iron(III) chloride)
tincture of green soap (which also contains lavender)
tincture of guaiac
tincture of iodine
tincture of opium (laudanum)
camphorated opium tincture (paregoric)
A sentence "Tincture of time" refers to the tendency of numbers of items to resolve themselves in case a single only waits.
Examples of spirits include:
spirit of ammonia (also known as spirit of hartshorn)
spirit of camphor
spirit of ether, a guide of divinyl ether within alcohol
"spirit of Mindererus", ammonium acetate in alcohol
"spirit of nitre" is not the spirit in that feel, however an old title for nitric acid (but "sweet spirit of nitre" was ethyl nitrite)
likewise "spirit of salt" actually intended hydrochloric acid,
"spirit of vinegar" was glacial acetic acid and
"spirit of vitriol" was sulfuric acid.
"spirit of wine" or even "spirits of wine" is an old title for alcohol (especially food grade alcohol from either a distillation of wine)
"spirit of wood" means methanol, often from either a destructive distillation of wood
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