"menstruum" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin mēnstruum (“menstrual discharge”).",
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      "glosses": [
        "The menses; menstrual discharge."
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        "(chiefly in the plural, historical) The menses; menstrual discharge."
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          "ref": "1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist:",
          "text": "Whenever any menstruum or other additament is employed, together with the fire, to obtain a sulphur or a salt from a body, we may well take the freedom to examine, whether or no the menstruum do barely help to separate the principle obtained by it...",
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          "ref": "1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:",
          "text": "[T]hat combustible sulphureous Body is presently prey'd upon and devoured by the aereal incompassing Menstruum, whose office in this Particular I have shewn in the Explication of Charcole.",
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          "ref": "1812, Humphry Davy, The Elements of Chemical Philosophy, Introduction:",
          "text": "The analysis of mineral bodies... refined by the application of acid and alkaline menstrua, by Margraaf, Bergman, Bayen, and Achard, received still greater improvements from the labours of Klaprothk, Vauquelin, and Hatchett.",
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        "A solvent."
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        "(historical) A solvent."
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        "Any liquid medium"
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      "ipa": "/ˈmɛn.stɹʊəm/",
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        "The menses; menstrual discharge."
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