Definition of Camphor oil

1. Noun. Oil distilled from camphor resin.

Generic synonyms: Oil

Lexicographical Neighbors of Camphor Oil

camphines
camphire
camphires
camphogen
camphol
campholic acid
camphols
camphor
camphor-6-exo-hydroxylase
camphor 5-monooxygenase
camphor ball
camphor daisy
camphor dune tansy
camphor ice
camphor liniment
camphor oil (current term)
camphor tree
camphoraceous
camphorate
camphorated
camphorated oil
camphorated tincture of opium
camphorates
camphorating
camphoric
camphoric acid
camphoronic acid
camphors
camphorsulphonic
camphorsulphonic acid

Literary usage of Camphor oil

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Druggist (1890)
"In the meanwhile camphor and camphor oil have deposited on the inside of the smaller ... The camphor oil is valuable, and carefully collected to be refined, ..."

2. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1860)
"As this tree yields common camphor, but not borneol, the camphor-oil obtained from it was probably different from that of the ..."

3. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"camphor oil. The following are the constituents of normal camphor oil, only a limited number of which are present in the fractions known commercially as ..."

4. The Volatile Oils by Eduard Gildemeister, Friedrich Hoffmann (1900)
"Normal camphor oil, ie the oil with nil constituent as it is obtained by the distillation of the camphor wood, isa semi-solid mass, or a liquid mixed with ..."

5. Chemistry: General, Medical, and Pharmaceutical Including the Chemistry of by John Attfield (1871)
"... is easily obtained from the wood, and is occasionally met with in commerce under the name of liquid camphor or camphor oil ; its formula is ..."

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