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Six example sentences with benzoic, each labelled with its topic.
Cranberries keep so well because the fruit carries a natural benzoic compound that discourages mold in the barrel.
Cooking
Students recrystallized the benzoic crystals from hot water and weighed them once the filter paper had dried.
Science
Regulators track benzoic residues in river sediment because food plants discharge them steadily rather than in visible spikes.
Environment
The foot ointment pairs a benzoic compound with salicylic acid, a recipe pharmacists have used against fungus for a century.
Medicine
The soda brand dropped its benzoic preservative after shoppers began photographing labels and posting the ingredient list online.
Business
In 1556 Nostradamus described distilling benzoic acid from a fragrant resin shipped from Sumatra.
History
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