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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… the new name is not clear, unless it was the addition of SULPHUR, which was certainly known by the mid-eighteenth …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… sulph] Translated into English, the term means 'milk of SULPHUR', because of its white colour. It was in fact a … of 1746, the name had been changed officially to Sulphur praecipitatum or Precipitated sulphur, with a slightly different recipe using a weak SPIRIT …