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What does camphor mean?

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Noun
  1. (organic chemistry) A white transparent waxy crystalline isoprenoid ketone, 1,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-one, with a strong pungent odour, used in pharmacy.
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Ironically while it won't grow here, its close relative the camphor laurel grows only too well.
At 16, Martin was confronted by thousands and thousands of bugs on pins and a strong smell of camphor.
Antipruritics such as menthol or camphor can be added to the corticosteroid base.
This one, however, dulcifies with water to yield camphor and a bit of Hessian from the bungcloth.
The natural active ingredients are camphor, menthol, cajuput oil, mint oil and clove oil.
The shrine room was full of fragrant fumes of agarbathis and camphor and warm with the burning oil lamps.

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