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Definition of Acaroid resin

1. Noun. An alcohol-soluble resin from Australian trees; used in varnishes and in manufacturing paper.

Definition of Acaroid resin

1. Noun. A resin used mainly in varnishes and lacquer, obtained from plants in the genus ''Xanthorrhoea''. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Acaroid Resin

Literary usage of Acaroid resin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1911)
"According to Maiden, only about 2% of the yellow acaroid resin is soluble in ... Red acaroid resin, however, yields as much as 3% to petroleum ether. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"A brownish-black colour and turbid appearance denotes the presence of acaroid resin (Rebs, Lack. und. Färb. Ind. 1908, No. 11). Its chief constituents are ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1867)
"very interesting experiments on resins obtained from assafoetida, gamboge, acaroid resin, ... acaroid resin will yield ..."

4. Casein: Its Preparation and Technical Utilisationby Robert Scherer by Robert Scherer (1906)
"... African Copaiba Balsam—Mecca Balsam—Peruvian Balsam—Tolu Balsam—Acaroid Resin—Amine—Amber—African and West Indian Kino— Bengal Kino—Labdanum—Mastic—Pine ..."

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