benzyl acetate

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noun Chemistry.

a colorless liquid, C9H10O2, having a flowerlike odor: used chiefly for flavoring tobacco and in soaps and cosmetics.

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How to use benzyl acetate in a sentence

A record would spend years in larval form as an acetate, the big waxy master from which copies were made.
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Once both tracks hit acetate, a master record was sent to URP for pressing.
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The prototypes are built from a recyclable flat foam-rubber called ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA).
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The active ingredient is Benzyl Nicotinate (niacinamide), part of the drug group of vasodilators that widen blood vessels.
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This fluid is then heated, adding crystals of sodium acetate until it becomes perfectly clear.
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A portion of the yellow filtrate gave a reddish yellow precipitate with lead acetate.
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A precipitate obtained by adding lead acetate to a filtered solution of the original substance in 50 per cent.
Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant: (Rhus Toxicodendron)|William Anderson Syme
To the filtrate was added an excess of a solution of lead acetate in 50 per cent.
Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant: (Rhus Toxicodendron)|William Anderson Syme
The poison, if precipitated at all by lead acetate, must have gone down in one of the preceding fractions.
Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant: (Rhus Toxicodendron)|William Anderson Syme