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Definition of Birch oil
1. Noun. A liquid ester with a strong odor of wintergreen; applied externally for minor muscle and joint pain.
Substance meronyms: Oil Of Wintergreen, Wintergreen Oil
Generic synonyms: Salicylate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Birch Oil
Literary usage of Birch oil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Food Inspection and Analysis: For the Use of Public Analysts, Health by Albert Ernest Leach (1920)
"Synthetic methyl salicylate is very commonly substituted for both wintergreen
and sweet birch oil, and sweet birch oil in turn for wintergreen oil. ..."
2. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1910)
"In odour and taste birch oil is practically indistinguishable from pure methyl
salicylate ... The optical neutrality of birch oil also distinguishes it from ..."
3. The Volatile Oils by Eduard Gildemeister, Friedrich Hoffmann (1900)
"By distillation over a free flame, sweet birch oil passes over between 218 — 2'21°.
... Inasmuch as no commercial distinction is made between birch oil and ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"According to JH Gladstone, birch oil consists of an oil with a higher but not
constant boiling point and a hydrocarbon related to cymol boiling at 339.8° F. ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1892)
"In the Scientific American for June 13, 1891, is an article on the manufacture
of birch oil as carried on in New England.—Pharm. Jour, and Trans., 1891, 4, ..."
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