Fumigation Definition

Fumigation Sentence Examples

• Among other things Hales invented a "sea-gauge" for sounding, and processes for distilling fresh from sea water, for preserving corn from weevils by fumigation with brimstone, and for salting animals whole by passing brine into their arteries.

• It is of a pale brown colour, transparent, brittle, and in consequence of its agreeable odour is used for fumigation and in perfumery.

• Powdered, it has little effect upon the skin, but in ointment or used by fumigation it has local therapeutic properties.

• On the other hand, we know that in the first Christian services held in the catacombs under the city of Rome, incense was burnt as a sanitary fumigation at least.

• The process of fumigation lasts from seven to nine months, and during it the tobacco acquires its black colour and peculiar flavour.