What does oil of vitriol mean?

oil of vitriol means "(H2SO4) a highly corrosive acid made from sulfur dioxide; widely used in the chemical industry".

What is another word for oil of vitriol?

Close synonyms include vitriol, sulfuric acid, sulphuric acid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is oil of vitriol a common word?

oil of vitriol is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Oil of vitriol — meaning and 3 synonyms

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1.
(H2SO4) a highly corrosive acid made from sulfur dioxide; widely used in the chemical industry
Synonymsvitriol sulfuric acid sulphuric acid
Broaderacid
Narrowerbattery acid

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What does oil of vitriol mean?: oil of vitriol means "(H2SO4) a highly corrosive acid made from sulfur dioxide; widely used in the chemical industry".

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