balsam

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Walcott studied the fossils by cutting them into sections of paper-thin slices of rock and attaching them to glass slides using balsam sap.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023

But on the Isle Royale National Park near Michigan’s border with Canada, balsam firs were being devoured.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2023

It was a beach day, by Maine standards — slightly overcast and moderately balmy, with a hint of balsam in the air.

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2023

Overpopulation of the lumbering mammals were causing their own starvation as they outstripped available balsam fir trees — their primary food during long, snowbound winters, Michigan Technological University biologists said.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2023

The spray — one- half pound of DDT to the acre in a solution of oil — filtered down through the balsam forests and some of it finally reached the ground and the flowing streams.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson