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( Camphor)
179.75 °C (452.9 K) 204 °C (477 K) The word camphor derives from the French word camphre, itself from Medieval Latin camfora, from Arabic kafur, from Malay kapur Barus.[4] Barus was the port on the western coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra where foreign traders would call to buy camphor. In the Indian language Sanskrit, the word for camphor is karpoor. A South-Indian adaptation of this word, karpooram, is found in many South-Indian/Dravidian languages (like Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam). In the 9th century, the Arab chemist, Al-Kindi (known as Alkindus in Europe), provided the earliest recipe for the production of camphor in his Kitab Kimiya' al-'Itr (Book of the Chemistry of Perfume).[5]
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