She is particularly concerned for the protection of the soft-shelled Nile Turtle and the Oriental Sweetgum trees ( " Liquidambar orientalis " ), another endemic species proper to the region.
2.
Eduard accidentally discovered polystyrene in 1839 . Simon distilled an oily substance from storax, the resin of the Sweetgum tree, " Liquidambar orientalis ", which he named " styrol ".
3.
The hydrocarbon styrene is named for Levant styrax from " Liquidambar orientalis ", from which it was first isolated, and not for the genus " Styrax " itself; industrially produced styrene is now used to produce polystyrene plastics, including Styrofoam.
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The storax of the ancients was probably extracted from a different tree, seemingly from the " Liquidambar orientalis " which grows wild in northern Syria and may even have been grown in Israel; from it is extracted an aromatic sap with healing qualities called " storax liquidis ".
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However, benzoin resin does contain small amounts of the hydrocarbon styrene, named however for Levant storax ( from " Liquidambar orientalis ), " from which it was first isolated, and not for the genus " Styrax " itself; industrially produced styrene is now used to produce polystyrene plastics, including Styrofoam TM.
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It might have been a myrrh extract of the highest grade, the resin of " Styrax officinalis ", the resin of " Styrax benzoin " ( a close relative of and of the same genus as " Styrax officinalis " ), or even storax, the resin of Turkish sweetgum ( " Liquidambar orientalis " ).
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""'Liquidambar orientalis " "', commonly known as "'oriental sweetgum "'or "'Turkish sweetgum "', is a deciduous tree in the genus " Liquidambar ", native to the eastern Mediterranean region, that occurs as pure stands mainly in the floodplains of southwestern Turkey and on the Greek island of Rhodes.
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