7 CFR § 160.2 - Spirits of turpentine defined.

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title: "7 CFR § 160.2 - Spirits of turpentine defined."
title_number: 7
title_name: "Agriculture"
section_number: "160.2"
section_name: "Spirits of turpentine defined."
chapter_name: "AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (STANDARDS, INSPECTIONS, MARKETING PRACTICES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE"
subchapter_number: "F"
subchapter_name: "NAVAL STORES"
part_number: "160"
part_name: "REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS FOR NAVAL STORES"
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currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
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authority: "7 U.S.C. 94, 1624."
regulatory_source: "11 FR 14665, Dec. 27, 1946; 17 FR 221, Jan. 9, 1952; 20 FR 6433, Sept. 1, 1955, unless otherwise noted."
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# 160.2 Spirits of turpentine defined.

Spirits of turpentine, also commonly known as turpentine, is the colorless or faintly colored volatile oil consisting principally of terpene hydrocarbons of the general empirical formula C<sub>10</sub> H<sub>16</sub> and having a characteristic odor and taste. It occurs naturally in and may be recovered by distillation from the oleoresinous secretions obtained from living trees of the family *Pinaceae,* or present in the cellular structure, or wood, of species thereof.