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Definition of Terpenes
1. terpene [n] - See also: terpene
Lexicographical Neighbors of Terpenes
Literary usage of Terpenes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organic Chemistry: Or : Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds by Victor von Richter (1922)
"terpenes. The volatile or ethereal oils, obtained mostly by the ... terpenes C10H,6,
being the important, and often the chief, components of many ethereal ..."
2. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by August Bernthsen (1891)
"The camphor varieties resemble the ethereal oils in their occurrence and modes
of preparation, but they are solid. A. terpenes. The terpenes are nearly ..."
3. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by Arnold Frederick Holleman (1903)
"terpenes AKTD CAMPHORS. 358. All the terpenes have the empirical composition ...
Both the terpenes and camphors, which are nearly related to one another, ..."
4. Recent Advances in Organic Chemistry by Alfred Walter Stewart (1911)
"The chemical importance of the olefinic terpenes lies in the fact that from them
... Isoprene is the simplest of all the olefinic terpenes; it contains two ..."
5. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by Arnold Frederick Holleman (1903)
"All the terpenes have the empirical composition C5H8, but most of those which
... Both the terpenes and camphors, which are nearly related to one another, ..."
6. A Text-book of Chemistry: Intended for the Use of Pharmaceutical and Medical by Samuel Philip Sadtler (1918)
"THE terpenes are hydrocarbons of the formula (CjH,),. Both they and the camphors,
which are oxygenated derivatives, show a close relationship to the ..."
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