quick vinegar

noun

Vinegar made by allowing a weak solution of alcohol to trickle slowly over shavings or other porous material.

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nounquick vinegar (uncountable)
  1. uncountableVinegar made by allowing a weak solution of alcohol to trickle slowly over shavings or other porous material.

    His experiments proved successful, and soon after the quick vinegar process was generally adopted.

    1914, William Theodore Brannt, A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Vinegar, page 39
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    Dr. Kastner prescribes the following manner of making a malt wine for the quick vinegar process […]

    1848, Andrew Ure, “On Acetic Acid”, in Pharmaceutical Journal, volume 7, page 330

    In the other, a large surface of the liquid is exposed to the air, which is cause to circulate over it, so that the process is completed in a far shorter time, on which account it is called the "quick vinegar process."

    1905, Bertram Blount, Chemistry for Engineers and Manufacturers, page 236
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