DIPENTENE

CHARACTERISTICS

Dipentene is a lemon flavored colorless concentrated liquid form.

OTHER NAMES

Limonene or D- limone

BOILING POINT

175.0 to 176.0 ⁰C

DENSITY

• 0.847 at 15^OC

FLASH POINT

• 109 F

MELTING POINT

-97.0 ^OC

SOLUBILITY

• Soluble in alcohol
• Insoluble in water

PREPARATION

• By the fractional distillation of essential oils.
• By the wood tarpitine  distillation.
• In the making of camphor this chemical is get as by product in the reaction.

EFFECTS

• It is poisonous and flammable

Dipentene uses

In the Cheap soap perfumes making, as a resins solvents, to dissolving the rosin

Ester gum making as a resin solvent, to dissolving the waxes in the product, drying the metal soap ,rubber compounds, it is use as dispersing agent for oils and resins ,

Varnish making, in the manufacturing of paint and enamels,

Perfumery, printing inks, in the preparation of poly tarpene and also use as the substitutes of petroleum solvents.