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- >Aspirin (tm in some countries) is acetyl salicylic acid. Wintergreen
- >is the methyl ester of salicylic acid. Looked at another way, start
- >with salicylic acid and if you want aspirin, add vinegar; if you want
- >wintergreen, add natural gas. Opinion on whether chewing
- >wintergreen mints helps a headache is mixed.
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- But there's no question that a chewed wintergreen Lifesaver emits a
- small flash of light. In a fabled All Things Considered report, Susan
- Stamberg and Ira Flatow locked themselves in a closet at NPR to
- demonstrate the phenomenon.
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