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neous acid, acetone and producer gas. In his opinion, with an annual production of 
a new terpenic hydrocarbon, b. p. 163 to 165°; d 0.8628; [@]p +<7:70° Kt seems to be : 
") Report April 1905, 80; October 1905, 67, 68; April 1915, 48. 
and Se itronellal 1) are Boseint oe oh. on ve eh ee that 
disposal was too small to permit of a closer Ee eT ee 
wood of this pine. dso 0.8626; Qk — 13.159; tp! Al2t, The oil contained + 
bromide). Pincus forine the chief constituent of this oil. 
What enormous quantities of waste wood would be available for pros 
. in the United — is shewn by a paper published by A. D. aie on 
alone the annual quantity of waste amounts to about 15 billion feet poatl measure. 
If properly utilized, this waste wood would be a richer source of income than the 
timber itself. According to Little it could be manufactured into turpentine oil, rosi 
pine tar oil, tar, varnish, charcoal, ethyl alcohol, ether, woodpulp and pulp board 
paper, paper bags, paper strings, cattle fodder and probably also acetic acid, pyrolig- 
15 billion feet of yellow pine there would be sufficient raw material for a daily (@) — 
output of 40000 tons of paper*), 3000 tons of colophony, 300 000 gallons of “turpentine” — 
oil and 600000 gallons of ethyl alcohol as well as Stone fae! for all the fea = 
ments of these branches of industry. J 
According to Aschan‘) the so-called “Finnish turpentine oil” obiaimed™ as a yee ‘ 
product when boiling sulphite wood pulp contains up to 20 per cent. of its weight of g 
closely related to pinene; no nopinic acid is formed in the course of oxidation. 
H. W. Fosse®) calls an oil obtained as waste product in the manufacture of woot 
pulp “Norwegian turpentine oil”. We have repeatedly pointed out®) that the designation. 
of turpentine oil should be reserved exclusively to the product obtained by ‘steam — 
distillation from turpentine gum and that it is not gers to call oils such as the 
one described by Fosse turpentine oil. ee 
The following is the method of producing this “Norwegian ienestine oil”: = ae 
Comminuted wood of pine and fir trees is placed in, closed iron vessels ie 
with so-called sulphite lye and is boiled at a reser of 6 to 8 atmospheres, the 
escaping steam being condensed. In the process of sulphite-boiling, badly-smel 
compounds are formed which impart to the crude oil a repulsive odour, but it 
be freed from this odour in a large measure by a purification process 2) hydigc 
acid and chloride of lime. | , 
1) Adams seems to be of opinion that citnepeten is present in the turpentine oil irom Pinus. ue ey, 
was also assumed by Schorger (loc. cit.). On the occasion of an examination of turpentine oil from 
Jejfreyi we succeeded in showing that the substance in question is not citronellal, but. n-decyli 
(Report April 1915, 45). — *) Journ. Ind. Eng. Chemistry 8 (1916), 102. — %) According to a commu j 
in the Zeitschrift fir angewandte Chemie (29 [1916], ‘III. 345) 15000 tons of paper are produced in 
States every day. — +4) Chem. Ztg. 40 (1916), 235. 5) Berichte d. deutsch. . pharm. Geox 20 (i 
