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cam•phene n.

a colorless, crystalline, water-insoluble substance, C₁₀H₁₆, occurring in turpentine and many other essential oils, prepared from pinene: used chiefly as an intermediate in the manufacture of synthetic camphor.

Neo-Latin camph(ora) camphor + -ene
1835–45

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