Re: Garden Centre photo supply

TERRY KING (KINGNAPOLEONPHOTO@compuserve.com)
Mon, 06 Apr 1998 17:13:21 -0400

Message text written by Peter Charles Fredrick
>In the UK for a good many years poor quality sulphuric acid was indeed
called Spirits of Wine and also hydrochloric acid was called Spirits of
Salts,Aqua Fortis was weak Nitric Acid, and you could purchase this rather
lethal liquids from the local Hardware Store then we became Americanised
in this respect and common sense prevailed.
<

Thanks Pete. I knew that I had seen it somewhere. I remember now that it
was not in a dictionary but on a bottle that I had seen it in a local
hardware store on the same shelf as the spirits of salt where you could
still buy both last time I looked. It was the kind of old fashioned store
that people with 10 x 8s like to photograph and buy their spirits of salt
for clearing Pt prints and spirits of wine for clearing green chrome salts
from some gum prints.

Strangely I could not find a referece in Chambers 21 Century, Chambers
Technical, the Complete Oxford or Websters dictionaries.

Perhaps Chris Fox, with his his lexographical skills, could advise.

Terrry King