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Definition of Pyrolignic
1. Adjective. Of a substance produced by the effect of heat on wood, especially by destructive distillation.
Definition of Pyrolignic
1. Adjective. produced from wood by the action of heat ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyrolignic
Literary usage of Pyrolignic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1814)
"A still more economical method, lately invented, is to employ the acetic acid in
the form of the pyrolignic, obtained by the destructive distillation of ..."
2. The Dyeing of Paper Pulp by Julius Erfurt (1901)
"Black iron liquor is manufactured by dissolving scrap iron in pyrolignic acid.
... To be certain that a complete saturation of the pyrolignic acid has taken ..."
3. Monthly Consular and Trade Reports by United States Bureau of Manufactures (1906)
"The denaturing process in Austria is founded on the denaturing mixture at present
still in use in German}', which consists of 2 per cent of pyrolignic acid ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1898)
"... New Method for Preserving and Fixing Fresh-water Algae.s — This fixing agent
consists of equal volumes of formalin, pyrolignic acid, and methyl alcohol. ..."
5. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"WTH pyrolignic ACID. SPECIMEN DECALCIFIED ally present, and I repeatedly saw the
injected mass penetrating the pointed end. The corpuscle which occluded the ..."
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