coriandroln.
/kɒrɪˈandrɒl/ Chemistry.
A colourless liquid, C10H18O, obtained esp. from oil of coriander and oil of linaloe.
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1891 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 60 540 Coriander oil consists of terpenes and about 90 per cent. of another substance which is termed coriandrol... Coriandrol, C10H18O, boils at 194–198° under a pressure of 760 mm.
1891 Pharm. Jrnl. & Trans. 21 940/1 Coriandrol is the name given by Semmler to the principal constituent of coriander oil.
1929 Encycl. Brit. VI. 431/1 Coriander..is used in medicine as an aromatic and carminative, the active principle of its volatile oil (Coriandrol) being isomeric with Borneo camphor.
1939 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. III. 364/2 Coriander, essential oil of... The chief odorous constituent is d-linalool, formerly known as coriandrol.
1950 E. Guenther Essent. Oils IV. v. 611 Barbier showed that coriandrol and linaloöl were identical chemically as well as physically, except for the opposite optical rotation. Coriandrol is, therefore, nothing else but d-linaloöl.
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