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methyl salicylate

noun

, Chemistry.
  1. a colorless, water-soluble liquid, C 8 H 8 O 3 , 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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Word History and Origins

Origin of methyl salicylate1

First recorded in 1875–80
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Example Sentences

The travel-size toothpaste-like tube contains a cooling ointment made with pain-relieving camphor, menthol, and methyl salicylate.

The substitution of methyl salicylate for the water has been attended with success.

A transparent, non-staining gelatinoid of combined iodine with menthol and methyl salicylate.

Besides methyl salicylate, the oil contains triaconitane, an aldehyde or ketone, and an alcohol.

It is itself a methyl salicylate 90 per cent., plus terebene 10 per cent.

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