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COLOPHONY

Volume 6 · 66 words · 1823 Edition

in Pharmacy, black resin, or turpentine, boiled in water, and afterwards dried; or, which is still better, the caput mortuum remaining after the distillation of the ethereal oil, being further urged by a more intense and long continued fire.β€”It receives its name of colophonia, from Colophon, a city of Ionia, because the best was formerly brought from thence. Two sorts are mentioned in ancient writings; the