The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Flowers

FLOWERS, in chemistry, a term formerly applied to a variety of substances procured by sublimation in the form of slightly cohering power, hence in all old books we find mention made of the flowers of antimony, arsenic, zinc and bismuth, which are the sublimed oxides of these metals in a more or less pure state. We have also still in use, though not generally, the terms flowers of sulphur, of benzoin, etc.