Lexic.us

Definition of Sassafras oil

1. Noun. Oil from root bark of sassafras trees; used in perfumery and as a disinfectant.

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Literary usage of Sassafras oil

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)
"sassafras oil. sassafras oil, which is of great commercial importance in the United States on account of its use as a perfume in cheap toilet soaps, ..."

2. Pharmaceutical and Food Analysis: A Manual of Standard Methods for the by Azor Thurston (1922)
"According to Schimmel & Co.,3 the fraction of camphor oil with a specific gravity of 1.07 is used under the name of artificial sassafras oil for all manner ..."

3. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"285), by the action of sulphuric acid on sassafras-oil. When equal volumes of alcohol, (sulphuric acid, and sassafras-oil are heated together, ..."

4. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1860)
"18, 735 ; NJ Pharm. 10, 314. Formation and Preparation. When bromine is slowly dropped into sassafras oil, a large quantity of ..."

5. The Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America: (The United States by United States Pharmacopoeial Convention (1820)
"OLEUM SASSAFRAS Oil of Sassafras 01. ... —sassafras oil A volatile oil distilled from the root of Sassafras ..."

6. The Volatile Oils by Eduard Gildemeister, Friedrich Hoffmann (1900)
"sassafras oil is frequently adulterated with camphor oil. A perfectly pure article appears to be of rare occurrence. Inasmuch as camphor oil contains all of ..."

7. Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met by Friedrich August Flückiger, Daniel Hanburgy (1879)
"Another constituent of sassafras oil has been termed by ... (1837) are impure products of the decomposition of sassafras oil by means of sulphuric acid. ..."

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