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Definition of Pinene
1. Noun. (organic compound) Either of two isomeric bicyclic monoterpene hydrocarbons that are the principal components of pine resin ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pinene
1. the main constituent of turpentine [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinene
Literary usage of Pinene
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1911)
"pinene forms the most important constituent of French and American oils of turpentine.
As prepared from the former source, it was called by Berthelot ..."
2. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1889)
"THE pinene GROUP. 2509 OH of turpentine has been long prepared by the distillation
of turpentine with water, that derived from Pinus maritima being employed ..."
3. Recent Advances in Organic Chemistry by Alfred Walter Stewart (1920)
"The Constitution of pinene. pinene is a hydrocarbon isomeric with camphene ...
be obtained by acting on pinene with mercuric acetate (Henderson and Agnew, ..."
4. A Textbook of Organic Chemistry by Joseph Scudder Chamberlain (1921)
"It is known as pinene and has the following constitution. H2C pinene It is a
characteristically smelling liquid boiling at 156° and exists in ..."
5. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1902)
"The ad dition of one molecule of hydrogen chloride to pinene gives the familiar
monohydrochloride (artificial camphor, mp 128°), from which, by withdrawal ..."
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