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What does abietic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of, pertaining to, or derived from fir trees.
  2. (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to abietic acid or its derivatives.
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Also workers in the wood processing trade may have contact with abietic acid.
Tall oil is principally a mixture of resin acids, such as abietic acid, and fatty acids, such as oleic and linoleic acids, with some sterols and other compounds.
The constituents of rosin are chiefly abietic acid or its anhydride together with pinic and sylvic acids.
And the rosin resins are mainly composed of a mixture of C20 such as tricyclic fused-ring namely pimaric and abietic acids.
Among dierpenes, palustric acid reveals the highest level, which is followed by neoabietic acid and abietic acid.
Succinic acid may not be an original component of amber, but rather a degradation product of abietic acid.

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