camphene

American  

[kam-feen, kam-feen] / ˈkæm fin, kæmˈfin /

noun

1. a colorless, crystalline, water-insoluble substance, C 10 H 16 , occurring in turpentine and many other essential oils, prepared from pinene: used chiefly as an intermediate in the manufacture of synthetic camphor.

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camphene British  

/ ˈkæmfiːn /

noun

1. a colourless crystalline insoluble optically active terpene derived from pinene and present in many essential oils. Formula: C 10 H 16

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Etymology

Origin of camphene

1835–45; < New Latin camph ( ora ) camphor + -ene

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Example Sentences

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camphene

Take 1 pint of camphene, and put into it all the india rubber it will dissolve, 1 pint currier's oil, 7 lbs. tallow, and 2 ozs. of lampblack; mix thoroughly by heat.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young

Mrs. Salsify in the parlor below kept wishing her visitors would go, for she had never seen the wicks in the camphene lamps of so surprising a length.

From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Effie Afton

At a dance it was floor-scrubbing, filling the camphene lamps, and making up beds for the babies to be later deposited by their dancing mothers.

From A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Charles A. (Charles Albert) Murdock

One night, while she was dressing in her private room at the theatre, a camphene lamp exploded and her face was shockingly burned.

From My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself. by George Thompson

The chief constituents of the oil are geraniol, citronellal, linalol, borneol, methyl eugenol, camphene, limonene, and dipentene.

From The Handbook of Soap Manufacture by W. H. Simmons

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