Radika wrote:

It sounds like the separation of stearoptene from the oil is
accomplished by cooling the rose oil to 12.5° C. This references may
be of some use to you:
http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/eclec...rosa_oleu.html SNIP

Here is another reference from the nineteenth century:
http://www.swsbm.com/AJP/AJP_1889_No_7.pdf ... Hope that helped. Wish
you luck in preparing your report - sounds like it would be quite a
prohibitively experiment to actually perform, ...

Oops. I meant to say "- sounds like it would be quite a prohibitively
EXPENSIVE experiment to actually perform,..." - sorry about the typo.


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Radika
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