Definition of Copaiba balsam

1. Noun. An oleoresin used in varnishes and ointments.

Exact synonyms: Balsam Capivi, Copaiba
Generic synonyms: Oleoresin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Copaiba Balsam

cop-killer
cop-out
cop-outs
cop a plea
cop it
cop off
cop on
cop out
cop shop
cop shops
cop the bun
copacetic
copacking
copaiba
copaiba balsam (current term)
copaibas
copaid
copaiva
copaivas
copal
copaline
copalite
copalm
copalms
copals
coparaffinate
coparcenaries
coparcenary
coparcener

Literary usage of Copaiba balsam

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

1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"The two varieties of copaiba balsam just described, the first of which, ... [2]1"- 172) found in three varieties of mobile copaiba balsam of the first ..."

2. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1853)
"AMONG the substances fraudulently mixed with Peru balsam, castor oil, and copaiba balsam, are the most difficult to detect. The author recommends the ..."

3. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1911)
"When pure copaiba balsam is present, the acetic acid solution remains colourless or assumes a pale yellow tint, whereas in the presence of ..."

4. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1886)
"For the determination of fatty oils in copaiba balsam J. Muter (Analyst, i. 160) employs a process based on the insolubility of oleate and ricinoleate of ..."

5. Clinical Diagnosis: The Bacteriological, Chemical, and Microscopical by Rudolf Jaksch von Wartenhorst, James Cagney (1897)
"copaiba balsam.—copaiba balsam in the urine yields a red •colour with hydrochloric acid, changing to violet when heated. If ammonia or caustic soda lie ..."

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