A soft, sticky, fragrant resin derived from trees of the family Burseraceae. Elemi is used in lacquer, lithographic inks, textile coatings, paper coatings, perfume bases, and waterproofing. It has been used as a plasticizer in varnishes, but the components responsible for its initial malleability (mono- and sesquiterpenoids) evaporate and it eventually hardens to a brittle film. The term was imprecisely used in the 17th and 18th centuries to describe many oleoresin mixtures. (en)
Een aromatische oliehoudende hars van tropische bomen die vooral wordt gebruikt in vernis, lak en drukinkt. (nl)