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Progress In Essential Oils

Dec 28th, 2008
Brian M. Lawrence
Ocimum gratissimum oil. A sample of O. gratissimum obtained from Zhanjiang (Guangdong, China) was analyzed by Zhu et al. (1993) using GC/MS. Its composition was determined to be as follows:

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