0 violent hate and anger expressed through severe criticism:
He is a writer who has often been criticized by the press but never before with such vitriol.
The instructions for producing "silver vitriol" (silver nitrate), however, contain an interesting detail that indicates the beginning of a new explanation.
The vitriol hitherto hidden in the notes slowly wafted up into the body of the text, death shuffling close behind.
Nor is there is any concrete political program behind the vitriol.
Historians of chemistry have not noticed until now that the possibility that natural vitriol was a heterogeneous composition of copper and sulfuric acid was not at all considered.
The latter phenomenon was irreconcilable with the idea that a "vitriol" is an "extract" and with the notion that all mineral acids function only as mechanical instruments of pulverization.
Beguin gives precise quantitative instructions as to the weight of the silver used and of the "vitriol" obtained.
The affinity maintained the unity of the "artificial blue vitriol" and was given as the cause for the possibility that this substance might be separated by means of iron.
Rachel's actual indictment concerned only the relatively petty crime of fraud, which nonetheless occasioned an astounding degree of vitriol among her contemporaries.
