SC - camphor
James and/or Nancy Gilly
KatieMorag at worldnet.att.net
Sun Jan 25 19:51:32 PST 1998
At 21:59 25-1-98 +0000, Stefan li Rous wrote:
>What *is* camphor? I thought it was a petroleum product. How would
>they have produced it in the Middle Ages? How else was it used in
>the Middle Ages?
Says the *Britannica*:
camphor, an organic compound of penetrating, somewhat
musty aroma, used for many centuries as a component of incense
and as a medicinal. Modern uses of camphor have been as a
plasticizer for cellulose nitrate and as an insect repellent,
particularly for moths. The molecular formula is C10H16O
[C-ten H-sixteen O].
Camphor occurs in the camphot laurel, *Cinnamomum camphora*,
common in China, Taiwan, and Japan....
(*Encyclopaedia Britannica*, 15th edition, Vol II, p 492. Copyright 1977 by
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.)
Alasdair mac Iain
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James and/or Nancy Gilly
katiemorag at worldnet.att.net
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