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essential oil

hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aroma compounds from plants
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essential oil

Summary

essential oil ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,769 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • essential oil is a type of mixture[2].
  • essential oil is a type of vegetable oil[3].
  • essential oil is a type of oil[4].
  • essential oil's Commons category is recorded as Essential oils[5].
  • essential oil's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Essential oils[6].
  • essential oil's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[7].
  • essential oil's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • essential oil's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[9].
  • essential oil's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • essential oil's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • essential oil's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[12].
  • essential oil's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[13].
  • essential oil's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[14].
  • essential oil's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[15].
  • essential oil's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[16].
  • essential oil's described by source is recorded as Small Soviet Encyclopedia[17].
  • essential oil's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[18].
  • essential oil's different from is recorded as Bach flowers[19].
  • essential oil's different from is recorded as absolute[20].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include mixture[2], vegetable oil[3], and oil[4].

Why It Matters

essential oil ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,769 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 72 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Q87326621. wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Q87326621. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Q87326621. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Bach flowers, absolute
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 4917864
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → mixture, vegetable oil, oil
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 16694, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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