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BERGAMOT, OIL OF

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 772 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BERGAMOT, OIL OF , an essential oil obfained from the rind of the See also:fruit of the Citrus berganzia. The bergamot is a smalltree with leaves and See also:flowers like the See also:bitter See also:orange, and a See also:round fruit nearly 3 in. in See also:diameter, having a thin See also:lemon-yellow smooth rind. The See also:tree is cultivated in See also:southern See also:Calabria, whence the entire See also:supply of bergamot oil is See also:drawn. Machinery is mostly used to See also:express the oil from the fruit, which is gathered in See also:November and See also:December. The oil, which on See also:standing deposits a stearoptene, bergamot camphor or bergaptene, is a limpid greenish-yellow fluid of a specific gravity of o•882 to o.886, and its powerful but pleasant odour is mainly due to the presence of linalyl acetate, or bergamiol, which can be artificially prepared by See also:heating linalol with acetic anhydride. The See also:chief use of bergamot oil is in See also:perfumery. The word apparently is derived from the See also:Italian See also:town See also:Bergamo. The name Bergamot, for a variety of See also:pear, is an entirely different word, supposed to be a corruption of the See also:Turkish beg-armudi ( = See also:prince's pear; cf. Ger. Fiirstenbirn).

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