Camphine

Camphine was the trade name of a purified spirit of turpentine formerly used for lamps, generally prepared by distilling turpentine with quicklime.[1] Camphine gives a very brilliant light when burned in a lamp, but, to prevent smoking, the lamp must have a very strong draught. To achieve this special lamps were constructed, so called Vesta lamps.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Liebig, Justus (1850). Publisher = Vieweg und Sohn, Handwörterbuch der Reinen und Angewandten Chemie Check |url= value (help). pp. 699–700.
  2. ↑ "The Camphine Lamp". The Magazine of Science and School of Arts VI. 1845. pp. 97–98.


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