litmus-paper

The vapour, as it passes along a glass tube, may be decomposed by heat into chlorine, hydrochloric acid, and carbon -- the first shown by setting free iodine in iodide of starch, the second by reddening blue litmus-paper, and the last by its deposit.

Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

Her mind was a perfect laboratory of tests and reagents; every syllable you put into breath went into her intellectual eudiometer, and all your thoughts were recorded on litmus-paper.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various

He described the litmus-paper test which was practised on us monthly, and before and after sledge journeys.

The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922

Nay, but your Morelli, your Crowe, ciphering as they went for want of thought, what did they do but screw Art into test - tubes, and serve you up the fruit of their litmus-paper assay with vivacity, may be, -- but with what kinship to the picture?

Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett Maurice Hewlett 1892

How a knowledge of what acid will turn blue litmus-paper red is going to help an officer to find fodder for his troop horses, or inspire him to lead a forlorn hope, was then, and still is, beyond my youthful comprehension.

Captain Macklin Richard Harding Davis 1890

It is a white powder, and should show no alkaline reaction with moistened litmus-paper.

A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886

During a year or two of adolescence I used to be dabbling in chemistry a good deal, and as about that time I had my little aspirations and passions like another, some of these things got mixed up with each other: orange-colored fumes of nitrous acid, and visions as bright and transient; reddening litmus-paper, and blushing cheeks; -- eheu!

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

Her mind was a perfect laboratory of tests and reagents; every syllable you put into breath went into her intellectual eudiometer, and all your thoughts were recorded on litmus-paper.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

During a year or two of adolescence I used to be dabbling in chemistry a good deal, and as about that time I had my little aspirations and passions like another, some of these things got mixed up with each other: orange-colored fumes of nitrous acid, and visions as bright and transient; reddening litmus-paper, and blushing cheeks; -- eheu!

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

Her mind was a perfect laboratory of tests and reagents; every syllable you put into breath went into her intellectual eudiometer, and all your thoughts were recorded on litmus-paper.

The Professor at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851