Linseed Oil
the fixed oil expressed It may be taken as the type of the class whole being the glyceride of linoleic acid. It may be taken as the type of the class known as drying oils, from their property of drying up into a transparent, tough, resinous mass when exposed to the air. When the oil is boiled for some time, till it loses about one-sixth of its and viscid, and dries up, still more read- weight, it becomes thicker, tenacious, ily than in the fresh state, into a turpenily than in the fresh state, into a turpentine-like mass, scarcely soluble in oils. It then forms the basis of printers' and painters' varnishes. Linseed oil, mixed It then forms the basis of printers' and with chloride of sulphur, forms caoutchouc-like products, and with alkalies a with chloride of sulphur, forms caoutsoft soap. Upper Austria; 117 miles W. of Vienna, on the Danube. As a place of some stra-