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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hydrocarbon obtained by distillation from the resin of the nut-pine of California, Pinus Sabiniana.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (
Pinus sabiniana ) of California.
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- noun organic chemistry A volatile oil
distilled from theresin orbalsam of the nut pine Pinus sabiniana.
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dhuber commented on the word abietene
OK, one chemical exception, because I like resinous trees.
MW - "the hydrocarbon mixture, chiefly C19H30 with two double bonds in the molecule, that results from heating resin acids"
September 25, 2008