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Definition of Sweet-birch oil

1. Noun. A liquid ester with a strong odor of wintergreen; applied externally for minor muscle and joint pain.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweet-birch Oil

Literary usage of Sweet-birch oil

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

1. Food Inspection and Analysis: For the Use of Public Analysts, Health by Albert Ernest Leach (1920)
"Synthetic methyl salicylate is very commonly substituted for both wintergreen and sweet birch oil, and sweet birch oil in turn for wintergreen oil. ..."

2. Food Inspection and Analysis: For the Use of Public Analysts, Health by Albert Ernest Leach (1920)
"Synthetic methyl salicylate is very commonly substituted for both wintergreen and sweet birch oil, and sweet birch oil in turn for wintergreen oil. ..."

3. Food Inspection and Analysis: For the Use of Public Analysts, Health by Albert Ernest Leach, Andrew Lincoln Winton (1913)
"Synthetic methyl salicylate is very commonly substituted for both wintergreen and sweet birch oil, and sweet birch oil in turn for wintergreen oil. ..."

4. The Volatile Oils by Eduard Gildemeister, Friedrich Hoffmann (1900)
"By distillation over a free flame, sweet birch oil passes over between 218 ... According to Power and Kleber"' (1893) sweet birch oil contains as much as ..."

5. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1910)
"This character is the only one besides the odour by which gaultheria oil is distinguishable from sweet birch oil, which is now very generally substituted ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1902)
"The detection of the addition of sweet birch oil to true wintergreen oil seems to be impossible with our present knowledge of the chemical composition of ..."

7. Food Inspection and Analysis: For the Use of Public Analysts, Health by Albert Ernest Leach, Andrew Lincoln Winton (1913)
"Synthetic methyl salicylate is very commonly substituted for both wintergreen and sweet birch oil, and sweet birch oil in turn for wintergreen oil. ..."

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