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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 37 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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HARTSHORN, SPIRITS OF

HARTSHORN, See also:
SPIRITS
SPIRITS OF , a name signifying originally the ammoniacal liquor obtained by the See also:

DISTILLATION (from the Lat. distillare, more correctly destillare, to drop or trickle down)

distillation of See also:

horn shavings, afterwards applied to the partially purified similar products of the See also:

ACTION

action of See also:

HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

heat on nitrogenous See also:

animal See also:

MATTER

matter generally, and now popularly used to designate the aqueous See also:

SOLUTION (from Lat. solvere, to loosen, dissolve)

solution of See also:

AMMONIA (NH3)

ammonia (q.v).

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