Gerard Douw and Schalken each carried a was candle, so that a sufficient degree of light was cast upon all surrounding objects.
Liquid amber, Storax or Styrax, flows from the leaves and trunk of the liquid amber styraciflua, a tree which grows in Virginia, Louisiana, and Mexico.
Benzoin and storax are used also on account of their agreeable odour.
Liquid storaxis now used to anoint the tongue when red-hot irons are to be placed in the mouth.
They ask permission to ship pepper and storax besides the amount of the permission, without restriction of quantity.
So vanish hence, but leave a name as sweet As benjamin and storax when they meet.
The spice and spikenard hence is gone, The storax and the cinnamon.
The altars all on fire be; The storax fries; and ye may see How heart and hand do all agree To make things sweet.
Fumigating lacquer consists chiefly of resins, to which sufficient liquid storax is added to render the mass plastic, so that sticks of any desired length and thickness can be formed therefrom.
The detection of an adulteration of Peru balsam withstorax is, according to Denner, effected as follows: Shake in a test-tube 5 parts of the balsam to be examined with 5 parts of a 15 per cent.
On distilling liquid storax with water, styrol passes over.
The admixed vegetable tissue can, according to Wiesner, be readily recognized by boiling the storax with alcohol, and after washing treating with dilute chromic acid, to which a small quantity of sulphuric acid has been added.
Ordinary storax (Styrax calamitus or St. vulgaris) is an artificial product prepared by mixing liquid storax with various comminuted vegetable substances.
This storaxforms a reddish or brown-black, humus-like mass, which is generally moist.
Storax tincture furthermore possesses the property of giving more constancy to scents resembling it.
There are Storax Trees, and if a Man in the Morning gets upon a high Place the Vapors that rise from the Earth perfectly smell of Storax coming from the fire the Indians make at night, and drawn up when the Sun rises.
Storax and benzoin, aromatic resinous balsams, are obtained from Styrax officinale L.
The Storax family is confined to North and South America, the Mediterranean region, eastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago.
Benzoin and storax are also used, on account of their agreeable odour.
The storax is here chiefly employed to disguise the odour and taste of opium.
Afterwards place under it a chafing-dish, in which burn some Storax and Benjamin.
The Galbanum is now found in Persia, and Storax in Asia Minor, both half-desert countries.
The embrocation is an equal quantity of a pleasantly-smelling liquid consisting of spirit with tincture of storax and a small admixture of volatile oils.
By moistening ordinary cigars with a strong tincture of cascarilla, to which a little gum benzoin and storax may be added.
Its odour is less agreeable than that of storax calamite.
Common storax is in large cakes, and brittle and soft to the touch.
Under this title there are two or three substances used in perfumery, such as balsam of Peru, balsam of Tolu, and balsam of storax (also called liquid amber).
Jacob is said to have used three kinds of rods, those of the poplar or storax tree, the almond, and the plane tree, which produced ringstreaked, speckled and spotted lambs.
Trees of thestorax family produce, or they are supposed to produce, resins and gums, balsams, and aromatic exudations, but some give little or none.
Storax is procured from a closely related tree is Asia, and has been known in commerce for many centuries.
It is, therefore, interesting to find that two members of the old storax family are quietly living in the coast region and among the mountains of the southeastern part of the United States.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "storax" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
