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What does camphor mean?

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  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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The shrine room was full of fragrant fumes of agarbathis and camphor and warm with the burning oil lamps.
We are pleased to learn that Noxzema, with its camphor, menthol and eucalyptus, worked so well for you.
When non-toxic doses have produced strangury it may be relieved by opium and camphor, and large draughts of water.
The area, covering 40,000 square metres, will have about 1,500 trees of various kinds including camphor trees, magnolia and pointed zelkova.
This one, however, dulcifies with water to yield camphor and a bit of Hessian from the bungcloth.
The previous factory used to boast a road lined with camphor trees, whose crowns shaded the whole road.

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