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- noun organic chemistry A colourless crystalline substance,
isomeric withpiperonal , but having weakacid properties. It is extracted fromsandalwood .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some are fragrant oils, as, for example, clove, santal, and thyme; others are fragrant gums, such as gum bezoin and myrrh.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883 Various
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-- The odophone shows that santal, geranium, orange flower and camphor, make a bouquet in the key of C.
Practical Mechanics for Boys J. S. Zerbe
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With a leaden sense of guilt, but in a fever of impatience, of haste, she stripped off the coarse hemp for her most elaborate satins, her santal and clover and carmine.
Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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Edward Dunsack recognized the scents that stirred from her, more Eastern and disturbing even than opium: there was a subtle natural odor of musk, the perfumes of henna and clove blossoms and santal.
Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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She was a branch of santal; she closed her eyes and left me.
The Garden of Bright Waters One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems Edward Powys Mathers 1915
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The most distant points of the defence, such as the _santal_ on the White Nile and Fort
The Life of Gordon, Volume II Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890
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The odor of santal assimilates well with rose; and hence, prior to the cultivation of rose-leaf geranium, it was used to adulterate otto of roses; but is now but seldom used for that purpose.
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851
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Celestial Empire, and to such an extent as to greatly enhance the value of santal-wood.
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851
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The otto of santal is remarkably dense, and is above all others oleaginous in its appearance, and, when good, is of a dark straw color.
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851
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The otto which exists in the santal-wood is readily procured by distillation; 1 cwt. of good wood will yield about
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851
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