Oil of Camphor

Brown camphor oil, representing the higher-boiling fractions of the crude camphor oil, has specific gravity 1.018 to 1.026, and contains from 25 to 35 per cent of safrole, of which it forms the chief commercial source, and which may be obtained from it by fractionation and freezing the appropriate fractions. Its value as a source of safrole varies directly with its specific gravity. It is also used as a cheap soap perfume. 

Another fractionated camphor oil having specific gravity about 1.070 is sold as artificial sassafras oil. It contains about 80 per cent of safrole and is used as a substitute for sassafras oil. 

Other fractions of intermediate specific gravity are supplied by the safrole manufacturers. 

Chinese camphor oil occasionally comes into the market it resembles an intermediate fraction of the Japanese oil but contains little, if any, safrole. 

This oil is of interest, as it contains neither terpenes nor aldehydes, and only a very small quantity of acids, alcohols and esters it consists almost entirely of ethers, of which safrole, myristicin and elemicin were identified. The oil distilled almost entirely between 245-280°, and on redistillation of the lower fractions some considerable portion boiled between 233-240°. After the removal of the safrole by fractionation and freezing... 

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Light oil of camphor is an almost colourless fraction containing a small amount of camphor, about 30% of cineole and the remainder terpenes. 

Dark oil of camphor consists very largely of safrole. 

APPEARANCE AND ODOR When pure, colorless liquid with fruity odor. With impurities, amber or dark brown, with oil of camphor odor... 

Similar to that of rotting fruit impurities may produce the odor of oil of camphor... 

Bomeol (16-19%), bomyl acetate ( ) (5-6%), camphor, cineol, pinene, camphene Oil of turpentine, oil of camphor, mineral oils... 

Safrole is found in oils of camphor and saffras. It has been used medicinally as a counterirritant and for parasitic infections. It is also a listed carcinogen and cannot be used as a fragrance ingredient. 

SYNS CAMPHOR OIL, RECTIFIED CAMPHOR OIL WHITE CAMPHOR OIL YELLOW FORMOSA CAMPHOR OIL FORMOSE OIL OF CAMPHOR JAPANESE CAMPHOR OIL JAPANESE OIL OF CAMPHOR LIGHT CAMPHOR OIL LIGHT OIL OF CAMPHOR LIQUID CAMPHOR OIL CAMPHOR SASSAFRASSY OIL OF CAMPHOR RECTIFIED OIL OF CAMPHOR WHITE WHITE CAMPHOR OIL WHITE OIL OF CAMPHOR... 

Over in China, Thailand, Japan, etc. grows the camphor tree. They chop up the bark, leaves and whatever. They then steam distill the stuff to get a crude camphor extract. When this extract cools, a motherlode of white camphor (the actual chemical compound called camphor) crystals form. These crystals are separated by fdtration and represent about 50% of the crude extract. The other 50% that doesn t crystallize is what is termed as camphor oil. It is this oil that is the camphor oil of commerce. This crude oil is also what is technically called the essential oil of camphor. ... 

Horae Embrocation. Take i ounce each of oil of. spike, oil of monarda (Uorsemint), ami strong ammonia water ounce acetate of opium, 1 ounce chloroform, 2 ounce.s tincture of camphor, 1 ounce oil or origanum, and 2 ounces oil of camphor. This is sfud to bo an excellent preparation. 

Mix together 1 ounce oil of spike, 1 ounce ammonia water, 2 ounces oil of camphor, 4 ounce oil of origauim, 4 ounce tincture of opium, 1 ounce spirits of turpentine, and 2 ounces olive oil. 

Cure for Crampa, Mix 2 irachms chloroform, 1 drachm oil of camphor, 6 drachma iimcilogo of gum-arabic, and 14 grains acetate of morphia. Dose, 40 drops every 2 hours. 

FORMOSE OIL of CAMPHOR (8008-51-3) Forms explosive mixture with air (117°F/47°C ). Violent reaction with strong oxidizers, chromic anhydride, potassium permanganate. Incompatible with chlorates, naphthalene, 2-naphthol, dichlorobenzene. Flow or agitation of substance may generate electrostatic charges due to low conductivity. 

OI) of Camphor, Rectified. Formosa oil of camphor Japanese oil of camphor white od of camphor light oil of camphor. Volatile od from Cinnamomum carnphora T. Nees A Eberm, Lauroceae. Constit. Safrot, acetaldehyde, camphor, terpineol, eugenol, cineo], d-pinene, phellandrene, dipentene. cadinere. 

Odor - - - Faintly fruity no odor w hen pure Odorless when pure Fruity, oil of camphor Sweet or musty odor of peaches Odorless... 

Soman has a vapor density more than six times heavier than air. It is a colorless liquid with a fruity odor, when pure, and an amber or dark brown color with an oil of camphor odor, when impure. Doses of soman that can cause death may be only slightly larger than those that produce symptoms. The median incapacitation dose for soman is unknown. In contact with water, it will hydrolyze to form hydrogen fluoride (HF). 

Odor liquid Fairly fruity No odor Fruity oil of camphor colored liquid Odorless... 

The 3,4,5-trimethoxy pattern. Elemicin is the well studied essential oil, 5-allyl-1,2,3-trimethoxybenzene, primarily from the oil of elemi. It is, like myristicin, a component of the Oil of Nutmeg, but it is also found in several of the Oils of Camphor, and in the resin of the Pili in the Philippines. This tree is the source of the... 

Camphor (120) is widespread in nature in both enantiomeric forms. The richest source is the oil of camphor wood Cinnamomum camphora, from which the (+)-enantiomer is extracted commercially (318). It is also an important contributor to the odor of lavender and of herbs, such as sage and rosemary. 

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