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What does limonene mean?

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  1. (organic chemistry) A monoterpene hydrocarbon 1-methyl-4-prop-1-en-2-yl-cyclohexene found in the essential oils of oranges, lemons and similar fruit, and mainly responsible for their fragrance
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The chemicals included aliphatic hydrocarbons, glycol ethers, isopropanol, limonene, naphtha, oils, and varnishes.
Summer savory contain about one percent of the oil that includes objects such as carvacrol, thymol, limonene and camphene.
Mainstream varieties, whether dryer sheets or liquid, contain harmful chemicals like benzyl acetate, benzyl alcohol, ethanol, limonene and chloroform.
Many diterpenoids produced by plants are commercially valuable, from fragrance compounds like limonene to the anti-cancer drug taxol.
Limonene synthase catalyses the stereo-specific cyclization of geranyl diphosphate to form a monocyclic monoterpene, limonene.
Industry currently uses limonene as a scent in household cleaners but might one day be used as the raw material for making the plastic bottle itself.

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