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Oil of Turpentine
Oil or formed, by means of a glass tube plunged spirits of turpentine is obtained by distilling into pounded ice, beneath which it will col- erude turpentine , along with water. The relect. It may be afterwards freed from adher-mainder left in the still after distillation is resin. It congeals at 14°, and boils at 312º the retort, and through it introduce by de- Fahr. its specific gravity is about 870°. It grees, a drop at a time, benzole (not benzine, is very inflammable, and becomes resinous by see No. 4321), SO long as nitrous vapors are 4321), so long as nitrous vapors are exposure to the air. When purified, by evolved; the liquid which passes into the re- ; the liquid which passes into the reredistilling with 3 or 4 times its volume of ceiver being poured back from time to time water, it produces the camphene of commerce. into the retort. When the red vapors have ceased to rise; distill off the excess of benzole, if any, from the acid. Then pour the contents