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Definition of: retene
(ret′ēn, rē′tēn) noun Chem.
A colorless crystalline compound, C18H18, contained in resinous pine wood and fir wood, also in fossil pine stems found in beds of peat and lignite. [<Gk. rhētinē resin]
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