methyl salicylate

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noun Chemistry.

a colorless, water-soluble liquid, C8H8O3, produced synthetically or by maceration and subsequent distillation from birch or gaultheria: used chiefly in perfumery and flavoring, and in medicine as a counterirritant in external preparations.

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Also called sweet birch oil, wintergreen oil.

Origin of methyl salicylate

First recorded in 1875–80

Words nearby methyl salicylate

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How to use methyl salicylate in a sentence

The travel-size toothpaste-like tube contains a cooling ointment made with pain-relieving camphor, menthol, and methyl salicylate.
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Although the gene itself stays unchanged, chemicals called methyl groups alter how that gene works.
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This process, known as epigenetics, involves the addition of small chemical tags known as methyl groups to the DNA double helix.
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Just add methyl cellulose, a thickener that can withstand high temperatures.
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Those stains which are dissolved in methyl-alcohol combine fixation with the staining process.
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Czapek says: "The well-known methyl pentoses do not occur in the free state in plant organisms so far as we know."
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Methyl furfurol was found here also, this method indeed giving better results than that of Maquenne.
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The soluble compound which is formed is generally considered to be a double salt of theobromin sodium and sodium salicylate.
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Theobromin sodium salicylate is described in New and Nonofficial Remedies and in several foreign pharmacopeias.
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