| 单词 | canada balsam | ||||||
| 释义 | Canada balsamCanada balsamCanada balsamCan′ada bal′samn.
Canada balsamCanada balsam,yellow, oily, resinous exudation obtained from the balsam firbalsam fir,common name for the evergreen tree Abies balsamea of NE North American boreal forests. It has small needles and cones and is used for lumber. It is also called Canada balsam, as is the resin it produces, which is used as an adhesive in optical lenses and glass ..... Click the link for more information. . It is an oleoresin (see resinresin, any of a class of amorphous solids or semisolids. Resins are found in nature and are chiefly of vegetable origin. They are typically light yellow to dark brown in color; tasteless; odorless or faintly aromatic; translucent or transparent; brittle, fracturing like glass; ..... Click the link for more information. ) with a pleasant odor but a biting taste. It is a turpentineturpentine, yellow to brown semifluid oleoresin exuded from the sapwood of pines, firs, and other conifers. It is made up of two principal components, an essential oil and a type of resin that is called rosin. ..... Click the link for more information. rather than a true balsam. On standing, the essential oil in Canada balsam evaporates, leaving behind the resin as a hard, transparent varnish. Canada balsam is valued as an optical mounting cement, e.g., for lenses and microscope slides, since it yields, when dissolved in an equal volume of xylene, a noncrystallizing cement with a refractive index nearly equal to that of ordinary glass. It is used also in paints and polishes. Canada balsam[‚kan·ə·də ′bȯl·səm]Canada balsamCan·a·da bal·samCanada balsama commonly used microscope slide mounting material for biological specimens. It is miscible with xylene.Canada balsamCanada balsam
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Canada balsam - medium-sized fir of northeastern North America; leaves smell of balsam when crushed; much used for pulpwood and Christmas trees