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n. - Any of three isotopes of a colorless aromatic liquid hydrocarbon occuring in the volatile oil of cumin and thyme and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins.

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  • In addition to the phenols, thymol or carvacrol, these oils contain cymene, thymene and pinene.
  • Terebenthene belongs to the benzene or aromatic series, which can be shown from its connection with cymene.
  • Besides a cymene and a toluene, which have already been shown to exist in rosin spirit, metaxylene was found to be present.
  • The fact that rosin spirit yields a different cymene is, he considers, an argument against the view which has more than once been put forward, that rosin is directly...
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