almond oil

[ ah-muhnd oil, am-uhnd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Chemistry.

Also called sweet almond oil, a colorless to pale yellow fatty oil expressed from the seeds of the sweet almond, used in preparing perfumes and confections.
Also called bitter almond oil. a colorless to yellow, poisonous oil obtained by steam distillation from the almond meal of bitter almond seeds: used chiefly in the manufacture of cosmetics, medicines, and perfumes.

First recorded in 1835–45

They introduced the lip balm, a combination of beeswax and sweet almond oil, in 1991.

Let us no longer have almond oil "essential," almond oil "unctuous," and the like.

He has made trial of Phosphuretted Almond-oil, containing one grain of Phosphorus to the pint.

Thus the artificial production of bitter-almond oil from toluene has already been explained.

Reduce the camphor to powder by rubbing it in a mortar with the addition of an ounce or more of almond oil, then sift it.

With another brush moisten the same parts with fine almond oil.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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