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How to use turpentine in a sentence

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To make this, mix equal quantities of linseed oil, white spirit or turpentine, and vinegar in a bottle and shake well.
Keep combustible liquids such as paint thinner, kerosene, charcoal lighter fluid, and turpentine away from heat sources.
Keeping with traditional methods, Hansen uses a boiled mixture of turpentine and pine tar to protect the unfinished wood.
Movie showings and lectures were held in schoolhouses, churches, sawmill settlements, and turpentine camps.
The scent of turpentine and oil paint drifts through his open window from his neighbor's house.
The paintings have the appearance of palimpsests, with rubbed-out passages, and residues of paint and turpentine streaming down the canvas.
Experimenters soon found that the hardened gum could be dissolved in turpentine and then reshaped.
When the floor is entirely dry, it is sealed, most commonly with successive applications of linseed oil and turpentine.
It was created by adding a good deal of turpentine to the paint before it was applied as the final coat.
Using melted beeswax and gum turpentine, Green brings his paint to a buttery consistency and applies it with a squeegee.
Found in hot, dry places and translated under various names, the turpentine tree produces an oil resin with commercial value.
The area is famous for its turpentine trees, the sap of which is used in candy making, and the leaf in making tea.
They are, however, susceptible to shrinkage from exposure to solvents containing naphtha or turpentine.
To perform this experiment a little oil of turpentine was placed at the bottom of a glass tube surrounded with boiling liquid air.
Smudges from the compound can be removed later with a cloth dipped in mineral spirits or turpentine.
Spain needed pine for tar, turpentine, and wood-essential naval stores for its shipbuilding industry in Cuba.
Stimulants, in the form of turpentine emulsion and doses of ipecacuanha, reinforced the weak pulse rate and stimulated blood flow.
At times I crave the intoxicating fragrance of linseed oil and turpentine, the sound of the brush on the canvas.
Then he repeatedly applies furniture varnish or stain which he wipes away with turpentine and reapplies to darken the edges of the work.
The resin harvested from the trees made eco-friendly turpentine, replacing imported petroleum-based products.
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Sinapisms, turpentine stupes, and stimulating and rubefacient liniments answer well in some cases, and should be tried.
To prepare this reducer, take one part varnish, and two parts of turpentine.
Castor oil, also alone or with a few drops of the oil of turpentine or of wormseed, is also an effectual remedy.
Delicate objects in gypseous alabaster can only be safely cleaned with benzol, or with pure oil of turpentine.
They are all soluble in ether, benzol, and turpentine, and may be mixed with each other in any proportion.
It should be made of raw sienna darkened with raw and burnt umber and thinned with raw linseed oil and turpentine, half and half.
If there are grease spots, they should be first taken out with chloric ether or spirits of turpentine.
The odour of the benzol passes off very quickly, that of the turpentine after exposure for a few days.
Some of the men still suffered from black-and-blue spots, which, however, a little turpentine liniment would have banished.
Quinine was scarce and boneset tea and flannel bandages saturated with turpentine were used as substitutes.
Hydrochlorate of turpentine, Hydrochlorate of camphene, Artificial camphor.
The mucus of the bladder is increased by cantharides, and perhaps by oil of turpentine.
After the superfluous turpentine or other cleanser has been wiped off, dust over the blanket with French chalk.
Mixture of boiled tung and soya bean oil, thinned with petroleum and turpentine.
I did, and I stank so of turpentine I was quite ashamed to lie with myself.
A little spirit of turpentine, or linseed oil, mixed with lime water, if kept constantly to the part will remove the pain.
Another coat is given, made with calcined white lead or massicot, ground in linseed oil and turpentine.
She looks into my kennels, and it is as if turpentine had been rubbed on the hounds' snouts.
The hot water will heat the turpentine, and the turpentine will melt the paraffin.
Then pile your tent into a tub and pour in the turpentine and paraffin mixture.
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