1863 The manufacture of liquors, wines, and cordials

X.

THE PROCESS

OF THE

MANUFACTURE OF SULPHURIC ACID.

THERE is scarcely any article that is used for such a different variety of purposes, arid one, too, that is so highly useful, of which there is so little known of its production, as oil of vitriol. Although it may not belong to the peculiar province of the manufacturer of liquors to manufacture this acid, yet a knowledge of its formation and general properties is necessary to a complete practical knowledge of the manufac- ture of wines, liquors,