Crossword-Solution: EMPYREUMA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Empyreuma | n. | The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels. |
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| smell and taste associated with burning vegetable and animal matter | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EAZCME
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eruption
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Having the same Greek origin are the scientific words "empyreuma" and "empyreumatic," applied to the characteristic smell of burning or charring vegetable or animal matter.
Any trace of colour or empyreuma is removed by agitation with some well-washed and recently ignited vegetable charcoal, or with a very small quantity of recently ignited purified animal charcoal, and subsequently passing it through a prepared calico bag-filter; or by allowing it to stand, for about a fortnight, in barrels containing some beech-wood chips; after which it is ready for sale, either as the ordinary acetic acid or pure pyroligneous acid of commerce, or (on dilution, &c.) as vinegar.
Should rectification be had recourse to, the addition of about 2 or 3% of bichromate of potash, peroxide of manganese, or red oxide of lead, will remove empyreuma, if present.
May the light above, More resplendent than Bolognian phosphorus, Preserve him From the athanor, empyreuma, and Reverberatory furnace of the other world; Depurate him from the fæces and scoria of this; Highly rectify and volatilize His ethereal spirit; Bring it safely out of the crucible of earthly trial, Place it in a proper recipient Among the elect of the Flowers of Benjamin; Never to be saturated till the general resuscitation, Deflagration, calcination, And sublimation of all things.
The unpleasant flavour can be prevented by covering the meat with a layer of some non-conducting material, as a pie-dish or a crust, no empyreuma being then formed.