Uses:

Preserving foods, fats, fruit juices, alkaloidal solutions, etc. Manufacture of benzoates, benzoyl compounds, and dyes. As a mordant in calico printing; for curing tabacco; as a standard in volumetric and calorimetric analysis; a pharmaceutic aid (antifungal agent); in plasticizers, perfumes, cosmetics and dentifrices. Cross: balsam Peru. ICU, NICU.