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Turpentine (which is also called gum turpentine, spirit of turpentine, oil of turpentine, wood turpentine, terebenthene, terebinthine and (colloquially) turps) is a fluid obtained by the distillation of resin harvested from living trees, mainly pines.
Mainly used as a specialized solvent, it is also a source of material for organic syntheses.

Turpentine is composed of terpenes, primarily the monoterpenes alpha- and beta-pinene, with lesser amounts of carene, camphene, dipentene, and terpinolene.

The word turpentine derives (via French and Latin), from the Greek word τερεβινθίνη terebinthine, in turn the feminine form (to conform to the feminine gender of the Greek word, which means "resin") of an adjective (τερεβίνθινος) derived from the Greek noun (τερέβινθος), for the tree species terebinth.
Mineral turpentine or other petroleum distillates are used to replace turpentine – although the constituent chemicals are very different.

turpentine, the resinous exudate or extract obtained from coniferous trees, particularly those of the genus Pinus.
Turpentines are semifluid substances consisting of resins dissolved in a volatile oil; this mixture is separable by various distillation techniques into a volatile portion called oil (or spirit) of turpentine and a nonvolatile portion called rosin.
Although the term turpentine originally referred to the whole oleoresinous exudate, it now commonly refers to its volatile turpentine fraction only, which has various uses in industry and the visual arts.

Turpentine is a colourless, oily, odorous, flammable, water-immiscible liquid with a hot, disagreeable taste.
Turpentine is a good solvent for sulphur, phosphorus, resins, waxes, oils, and natural rubber.
Turpentine hardens upon exposure to air.
Chemically, Turpentine is a mixture of cyclic monoterpene hydrocarbons, the predominant constituent being pinene.

Formerly, the largest use for turpentine oil was as a paint and varnish solvent.
Oil painters generally prefer it as a paint thinner and brush cleaner to petroleum solvents (mineral spirits), even though the latter are less expensive.
But the largest use of turpentine oil is now in the chemical industry, as a raw material in the synthesis of resins, insecticides, oil additives, and synthetic pine oil and camphor.
Turpentine is also used as a rubber solvent in the manufacture of plastics.

Turpentine is generally produced in countries that have vast tracts of pine trees.
The principal European turpentines are derived from the cluster pine (P. pinaster) and the Scotch pine (P. sylvestris), while the main sources of turpentine in the United States are the longleaf pine (P. palustris) and the slash pine (P. caribaea).

Turpentine is classified according to the way it is produced.
Sulfate turpentine, used widely in the chemicals industry, is obtained as a by-product of the kraft, or sulfate, process of cooking wood pulp in the course of the manufacture of kraft paper.
Wood turpentine is obtained by the steam distillation of dead, shredded bits of pine wood, while gum turpentine results from the distillation of the exudate of the living pine tree obtained by tapping.
Crude turpentine obtained from the living pine by tapping typically contains 65 percent gum rosin and 18 percent gum turpentine.

Turpentine is made from the resin of certain pine trees.
Turpentine is used as medicine.

Don’t confuse turpentine oil with gum turpentine, which is the resin.

Turpentine is applied to the skin for joint pain, muscle pain, nerve pain, and toothaches.

People sometimes breathe in (inhale) the vapors of turpentine oil to reduce the chest congestion that goes along with some lung diseases.

In foods and beverages, distilled turpentine oil is used as a flavoring.

In manufacturing, turpentine oil is used in soap and cosmetics and also as a paint solvent.

Turpentine , when inhaled, may help reduce congestion.
When used on the skin, turpentine oil may cause warmth and redness that can help relieve pain in the tissue underneath.

Turpentine is a mixture of volatile terpenic distillates of resin obtained from pines.
Turpentine is generally composed of α-pinene, β-pinene, limonene and camphene.
Turpentine possess antimicrobial and larvicidal properties and induces inflammation in high dosage.

Turpentine is one of the oldest known and most widely used industrial solvents.
Compared with other chemical solvents, turpentine is unique in the fact that it is made from a renewable source.
As a chemical, turpentine is naturally derived from live pine trees, as it has been for decades.
After a thorough distillation process, it is ready for use in industrial applications.
Composed primarily of terpenes, it can be blended to meet customer specifications.
As a leading turpentine blending and packaging company, we work closely with our customers to ensure they have just the right product when they need it.

turpentine (also called spirit of turpentine, oil of turpentine, wood turpentine, gum turpentine) is a fluid obtained by the distillation of resin obtained from trees, mainly pine trees.
Turpentine is composed of terpenes, mainly the monoterpenes alpha-pinene and beta-pinene.
Turpentine has a potent odor similar to that of nail polish remover.
Turpentine is sometimes known colloquially as turps, but this more often refers to turpentine substitute (or mineral turpentine).

The word turpentine is formed (via French and Latin) from the Greek word terebinthine, the name of a species of tree, the terebinth tree, from whose sap the spirit was originally distilled

The two primary uses of turpentine in industry are as a solvent and as a source of materials for organic synthesis.

As a solvent, turpentine is used for thinning oil-based paints, for producing varnishes, and as a raw material for the chemical industry.
Turpentine s industrial use as a solvent in industrialized nations has largely been replaced by the much cheaper turpentine substitutes distilled from crude oil.

Canada balsam, also called Canada turpentine or balsam of fir, is a turpentine which is made from the resin of the balsam fir.

Venice turpentine is produced from the Western Larch Larix occidentalis.

Turpentine is also used as a source of raw materials in the synthesis of fragrant chemical compounds.
Commercially used camphor, linalool, alpha-terpineol, and geraniol are all usually produced from alpha-pinene and beta-pinene, which are two of the chief chemical components of turpentine.
These pinenes are separated and purified by distillation.
The mixture of diterpenes and triterpenes that is left as residue after turpentine distillation is sold as rosin.

Turpentine is also added to many cleaning and sanitary products due to its antiseptic properties and its "clean scent".

Medicinal uses
Turpentine has been used medically since ancient times.

Applied externally to the affected areas, turpentine is a highly effective treatment for lice.
Turpentine can be mixed with animal fat as a primitive chest rub for nasal and throat ailments.
Many modern chest rubs still contain some turpentine (e.g., Vicks).
Internal administration of turpentine is no longer common today, though it was once the preferred means of treating intestinal parasites due to its antiseptic and diuretic properties.
Drinking turpentine is extremely dangerous and can be life threatening.
In addition, drinking turpentine is not an effective way to induce an abortion

Turpentine (also called spirit of turpentine, oil of turpentine, and wood turpentine) is a fluid obtained by the distillation of resin obtained from live trees, mainly pines.
Turpentine is composed of terpenes, mainly the monoterpenes alpha-pinene and beta-pinene with lesser amounts of carene, camphene, dipentene, and terpinolene.
Turpentine is sometimes colloquially known as turps

Turpentine is made from the resin of certain pine trees.
Turpentine is used as medicine.

Don’t confuse turpentine oil with gum turpentine, which is the resin.

Turpentine is applied to the skin for joint pain, muscle pain, nerve pain, and toothaches.

People sometimes breathe in (inhale) the vapors of turpentine oil to reduce the chest congestion that goes along with some lung diseases.

In foods and beverages, distilled turpentine oil is used as a flavoring.

In manufacturing, turpentine oil is used in soap and cosmetics and also as a paint solvent.

Turpentine is used topically to treat rheumatoid and neuralgic disorders, toothaches, muscle pain, and disseminated sclerosis.
Inhaling the vapors of turpentine oil can reduce thick secretions due to bronchial diseases.

Distilled turpentine oil is used as a flavoring ingredient in foods.
In manufacturing, turpentine oil is used as a paint solvent, as well as an ingredient in cosmetics and soap.

One of the earliest sources of turpentine was the terebinth or turpentine tree (Pistacia terebinthus), a Mediterranean tree related to the pistachio.
Important pines for turpentine production include: maritime pine (Pinus pinaster), Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis), Masson's pine (Pinus massoniana), Sumatran pine (Pinus merkusii), longleaf pine (Pinus palustris), loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) and ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa).

Canada balsam, also called Canada turpentine or balsam of fir, is a turpentine that is made from the oleoresin of the balsam fir.
Venice turpentine is produced from the larch.
Venice turpentine is a honey-like product often used by artists when painting in oil, and it is also used to treat horse's hooves.

To tap into the sap producing layers of the tree, turpentiners used a combination of hacks to remove the pine bark.
Once debarked, pine trees secrete oleoresin onto the surface of the wound as a protective measure to seal the opening, resist exposure to micro-organisms and insects, and prevent vital sap loss.
Turpentiners wounded trees in V-shaped streaks down the length of the trunks to channel the oleoresin into containers.
Turpentine was then collected and processed into spirits of turpentine.
Oleoresin yield may be increased by as much as 40% by applying paraquat herbicides to the exposed wood.

The V-shaped cuts are called "catfaces" for their resemblance to a cat's whiskers.
These marks on a pine tree signify it was used to collect resin for turpentine production

Formula: C10H16
Molecular mass: 136 (approx)
Boiling point: 149-180°C
Melting point: -50 - -60°C
Relative density (water = 1): 0.9
Solubility in water: none
Vapour pressure, kPa at 20°C: 0.25 - 0.67
Relative vapour density (air = 1): 4.6 - 4.8
Relative density of the vapour/air-mixture at 20°C (air = 1): 1.01
Flash point: 30-46°C c.c.
Auto-ignition temperature: 220-255°C
Explosive limits, vol% in air: 0.8-6

Crude oleoresin collected from the trees may be evaporated by steam distillation in a copper still.
Molten rosin remains in the still bottoms after turpentine has been distilled out.
Turpentine may alternatively be condensed from destructive distillation of pine wood.
Oleoresin may also be extracted from shredded pine stumps, roots, and slash using the light end of the heavy naphtha fraction (boiling between 90 and 115 °C or 195 and 240 °F) from a crude oil refinery.
Multi-stage counter-current extraction is commonly used so fresh naphtha first contacts wood leached in previous stages and naphtha laden with turpentine from previous stages contacts fresh wood before vacuum distillation to recover naphtha from the turpentine.
Leached wood is steamed for additional naphtha recovery prior to burning for energy recovery.

When producing chemical wood pulp from pines or other coniferous trees, sulfate turpentine may be condensed from the gas generated in Kraft process pulp digesters.
The average yield of crude sulfate turpentine is 5–10 kg/t pulp.
Unless burned at the mill for energy production, sulfate turpentine may require additional treatment measures to remove traces of sulfur compounds.

Turpentine is composed primarily of monoterpene hydrocarbons, the most prevalent of which are the pinenes, camphene, and 3-carene.
Rosin contains mostly diterpene resin acids, such as abietic acid, dehydroabietic acid, palustric acid, and isopimaric acid.
Numerous other compounds are present in small quantities in all turpentine products.

As a solvent, turpentine is used for thinning oil-based paints, for producing varnishes, and as a raw material for the chemical industry.
Turpentine s use as a solvent in industrialized nations has largely been replaced by the much cheaper turpentine substitutes obtained from petroleum.
A solution of turpentine and beeswax or carnauba wax has long been used as a furniture wax

Turpentine and petroleum distillates such as coal oil and kerosene have been used medicinally since ancient times, as topical and sometimes internal home remedies.
Topically, it has been used for abrasions and wounds, as a treatment for lice, and when mixed with animal fat it has been used as a chest rub, or inhaler for nasal and throat ailments.
Vicks chest rubs still contain turpentine in their formulations, although not as an active ingredient.

Turpentine, now understood to be dangerous for consumption, was a common medicine among seamen during the Age of Discovery.
Turpentine is one of several products carried aboard Ferdinand Magellan's fleet during the first circumnavigation of the globe.
Taken internally it was used as a treatment for intestinal parasites. This is dangerous, due to the chemical's toxicity.

Turpentine enemas, a very harsh purgative, had formerly been used for stubborn constipation or impaction.
Turpentine enemas were also given punitively to political dissenters in post-independence Argentina.

Turpentine is also added to many cleaning and sanitary products due to its antiseptic properties and its "clean scent".
In early 19th-century America, turpentine was sometimes burned in lamps as a cheap alternative to whale oil.
Turpentine was most commonly used for outdoor lighting, due to its strong odour.
A blend of ethanol and turpentine called camphine served as the dominant lamp fuel replacing whale oil until the advent of kerosene.
In 1946, Soichiro Honda fueled the first Honda motorcycles with turpentine, due to the scarcity of gasoline in Japan following World War II.
In his Book If Only They Could Talk, veterinarian and author James Herriot describes the use of its reaction with resublimed iodine to "drive the iodine into the tissue" - or perhaps just impress the watching customer with a spectacular treatment.
Turpentine was added extensively into gin during the Gin Craze

Turpentine has been traditionally applied as a cleaning agent for paints, lacquers, rubber, and varnishes, as well as disinfectants and insecticides.
However, particular usage of turpentine is in the pharmaceutical industry, and also perfumery, sprays, deodorizers, and stimulating ointments.
Nowadays, turpentine is employed to provide isolated chemical compounds, which could be converted into a variety of products.
Some terpenes like camphor, citral, linalool, and menthol, which are employed for the elaboration of other fragrances, can be derived from turpentine.
Miscellaneous applications for turpentine are in the preparation of shoe, stove, and furniture polishes

Specially distilled turpentine (used as a thinner, solvent and brush cleaner) obtained from selected conifers.

Transparent.

Resinless

Turpentine.

Turpentine is used to clean the brushes and palettes used in oil paint.

Turpentine is used as a thinner in oil paints.

Used as a solvent for natural resins, synthetic resins, vascular resin and gum tree resin.

Turpentine is used as a thinner for mineral spirit based varnishes.

Turpentine has been reported to be useful for its antiparasitic effects, particularly in the treatment of myiasis.
Turpentine has been used experimentally in baths for treatment of disseminated sclerosis and sexual dysfunction; however, data are limited and safety and efficacy have not been established.

Turpentine is primarily used as a solvent for industrial applications, such as thinner for paints and varnishes.
Preparation of carbon nano-spheres (CNSs) by decomposition of turpentine oil has been reported.

Turpentine has multiple uses in industrial applications, and is reliably at the top of the list as a staple in countless industries.
While most widely recognized for its cleaning and thinning properties, turpentine also is a common chemical in the health care and cosmetics industries.
Extracted turpentine oil is a highly useful product, as well. To name a few of the most common turpentine uses:

Solvent.
Turpentine is the traditional go-to quality paint thinner for most brush-applied alkyd and oil-based paints, varnishes and enamels.
Turpentine aids the paint in coating, bonding and penetrating all types of wooden surfaces.
Further, turpentine’s gum spirits make Turpentine excellent for use with artists’ oil paints.
Waterproofing.
In building and construction, turpentine can be used to create waterproof cement products.
Lubrication.
Industrial workers will use quality turpentine to lubricate such equipment as drills and grinders for glass.
Cleaner.
Turpentine is used to clean brushes, rollers and spray equipment, oil-based paint, varnish or polyurethane application tools.
Turpentine can also be used on new wood before finishing.
Healing.
Turpentine can be blended such that its oil can be used for medicinal purposes.
The oil is derived from the resin of certain pine trees, but is not the resin itself.
Turpentine can be applied externally to sooth joint and muscle pain, and it can be inhaled to reduce congestion.
Sanitation.
The anti-bacterial properties of turpentine make it an excellent choice for sanitation.
Consumption.
Distilled turpentine oil can be used as a flavor enhancer in foods and beverages.
Cosmetics.
In cosmetics, turpentine can be used as it is in solvents for thinning and cleaning purposes.
Insect repellent.
Certain blends of turpentine can be used in insecticides.
Additionally, it can be applied topically to reduce pain in the event that someone is stung by a bee or a wasp.
Fuel.
Some oil and gas lamps can be powered by way of turpentine blends.
From blending to turpentine chemical warehousing, we know this business from start to finish. Whatever your application, our experts can help create the right blend at the right quantity — so that you have exactly what you require, when you need it most.

used in solvent and as a source of materials for organic synthesis.
As a solvent, turpentine is used for thinning oil-based paints, for producing varnishes, and as a raw material for the chemical industry.
Turpentine s industrial use as a solvent in industrialized nations has largely been replaced by the much cheaper turpentine substitutes distilled from crude oil.
used in a source of raw materials in the synthesis of fragrant chemical compounds.
Commercially used camphor, linalool, alpha-terpineol, and geraniol are all usually produced from alpha-pinene and beta-pinene, which are two of the chief chemical components of turpentine.
These pinenes are separated and purified by distillation.
The mixture of diterpenes and triterpenes that is left as residue after turpentine distillation is sold as rosin.
used in medicinal elixir.
added to many cleaning and sanitary products due to its antiseptic properties and its “clean scent”.
ingredient of natural plant solvent

IUPAC NAME:

1-Methyl-4-methylethenylcyclohexene

Crude sulfate turpentine

Gum turpentine Oil

Gum turpentine oil

gum turpentine oil

Not Applicable

Not available

Pine Oil

propan-2-one

Terpentinöl

Terpentin�l

TOPP

Turpentine

turpentine

Turpentine essential oil

Turpentine Oil

Turpentine oil

SYNONYMS:

1118-39-4
214-262-0
2-Acetoxy-2-methyl-6-methylene-7-octene
2-Methyl-6-methylen-7-octen-2-yl-acetat
2-Methyl-6-methylene-7-octen-2-yl acetate
7-Octen-2-ol, 2-methyl-6-methylene-, acetate
Acétate de 2-méthyl-6-méthylène-7-octén-2-yle
myrcenyl acetate