In addition to the phenols, thymol or carvacrol, these oils contain cymene, thymene and pinene. From Wordnik.com. [The Handbook of Soap Manufacture] Reference
Terebenthene belongs to the benzene or aromatic series, which can be shown from its connection with cymene. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889] Reference
Besides a cymene and a toluene, which have already been shown to exist in rosin spirit, metaxylene was found to be present. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881] Reference
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 derived from terpene. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881] Reference
Finally, Dr Armstrong mentioned that the volatile portion of the distillate from the non-volatile product of the oxidation of oil of turpentine in moist air furnishes ordinary cymene when treated in the manner above described. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881] Reference
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