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An oily, volatile hydrocarbon, obtained by the distillation of caoutchouc or guttaipercha.

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  1. n. An oily, volatile hydrocarbon, obtained by the distillation of caoutchouc or guttaipercha.
  2. An oily, volatile hydrocarbon, obtained by the distillation of caoutchouc or guttaipercha.C5H8 -- unsaturated, and used to make synthetic rubber by polymerization. In organic chemistry, viewed conceptually as the building block of the terpene series of hydrocarbons
  3. An oily, volatile hydrocarbon, obtained by the distillation ofcaoutchouc or guttaipercha.C5H8 -- unsaturated, and used to makesynthetic rubber by polymerization. In organic chemistry, viewedconceptually as the building block of the terpene series ofhydrocarbons
  4. n. An oily, volatile hydrocarbon, obtained by the distillation of caoutchouc or guttaipercha.