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Essential oil   /ɪsˈɛnʃəl ɔɪl/   Listen
Essential oil

noun
1.
An oil having the odor or flavor of the plant from which it comes; used in perfume and flavorings.  Synonym: volatile oil.





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"Essential oil" Quotes from Famous Books



... which are used in making certain kinds of aromatic sweetmeats. Angelica balsam is obtained by extracting the roots with alcohol, evaporating and extracting the residue with ether. It is of a dark brown colour and contains angelica oil, angelica wax and angelicin, C{18}H{30}O. The essential oil of the roots of Angelica archangelica contains ss-terebangelene, C{10}H{16}, and other terpenes; the oil of the seeds also contains ss-terebangelene, together with methylethylacetic acid ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 • Various
... between 40 and 50 years of age, had had the jaundice about six weeks, without pain, sickness, or fever; and had taken emetics, cathartics, mercurials, bitters, chalybeates, essential oil, and ether, without apparent advantage. On a supposition that the obstruction of the bile might be owing to the paralysis, or torpid action of the common bile-duct, and the stimulants taken into the stomach ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin
... of iron be calcined to whiteness; coarse brown sugar instead of sugar candy; 1/4 oz. acetate of copper, instead of one ounce of the sulphate, and a drop or two of creosote or essential oil of cloves to prevent moulding." (See Ribaucourt receipt, p. 194.) * * * * * ...
— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho


Words linked to "Essential oil" :   oil of turpentine, bitter almond oil, ilang-ilang, turps, ottar, atar, attar, wormwood oil, oil, oil of cloves, eucalyptus oil, linalool, absinthe oil, spirit of turpentine, volatile oil, clove oil, turpentine, costus oil, athar


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