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Search for new industrial oils. I. Selected oils from 24 plant families
Author(s) -
Earle F. R.,
Melvin E. H.,
Mason L. H.,
Etten C. H.,
Wolff I. A.,
Jones Q.
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02640003
Subject(s) - composition (language) , value (mathematics) , mathematics , botany , chemistry , biology , statistics , philosophy , linguistics
Summary The group of analyses used in this preliminary screening of oils has proved capable of indicating many seed species that contain oils of unusual or unknown composition. Some of the oils are characterized sufficiently to suggest probable commercial uses; others give no evidence of properties that would lead to their use while present commercial oils are in adequate supply. Still other oils are shown to have unknown composition, which must be determined before their potential value can be judged. The study as yet contains too few species to generalize about the relationship between botanical classification and oil composition. It does however provide numerous leads in the search for oils of industrial value.