"Molybdenite" Quotes from Famous Books
... strange looking bottles with two or three mouths to each, at phials swelling into a balloon with a long, narrow tube. What an odd array of implements! And here are glass cupboards with a host of bottles and jars, filled with all manner of chemicals. The labels apprise me of their contents: molybdenite of ammonia, chloride of antimony, permanganate of potash and ever so many other strange terms. Never, in all my reading, have I met ... — The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre |