gum benzoin

noun

1. See benzoin
   another name for benzoin

Example Sentences

Mohr usually obtains about an ounce and a half of benzoic acid from twelve ounces of gum benzoin by the first sublimation.

From Project Gutenberg

Some of the largest wholesale perfumers use five or six pounds of gum benzoin per annum, but none use the benzoic acid.

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In all these ceremonies they burn on the spot a little gum benzoin--Et acerra thuris plena, positusque carbo in cespite vivo.

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It may, however, by skilful purification, be rendered quite equal to that obtained from gum benzoin.

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By moistening ordinary cigars with a strong tincture of cascarilla, to which a little gum benzoin and storax may be added.

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