Talk:Naval stores

Mask?

I can't find any reference to mask in connection with naval stores. Is that supposed to be mastic? DCDuring (talk) 22:28, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Good catch. It is probably Mastic (plant resin). Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 01:28, 28 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Bubba73 'Naval stores' is now not at all limited to shipbuilding now. It refers to the industry that sells products derived from pine oleoresins. Turpentine is an important material in chemical industries. Rosin is an inexpensive material which has lots of mostly obscure uses. 24.164.189.229 (talk) 03:17, 28 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please correct the short description as you see fit. I changed it from what seemed to be a limited use of the term. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 03:34, 28 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Who is Zallen?

After reading "Zallen tells... Zallen describes... Zallen prefers" I was left wondering what or who on earth is Zallen. The preceding text doesn't introduce them, yet they have three paragraphs of "Zallen reports". I realise it references a book but I know vanishingly little about naval stores or pine resin and have left clarification to somebody more learned in the ways of the mythical Zallen who'd prefer it to be spelt camphene. BeardedChimp (talk) 21:10, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal

I propose to merge Naval stores industry into Naval stores. They each about 7000 bytes long. Their subjects are almost identical. BTW, Wikipedia has many articles on related subjects:

Tall oil usually from Kraft plants, contains turp?
oleoresin mix of various terpenes and abeitic acid etc
Rosin oleoresin residue after distilling off turp
- abietic acid, the main component of rosin either directly or by isomerization of pimaric
- abietanes
Resin acid (with a hefty section "Production in tall oil (chemical pulping byproduct)" of which abietic and pimaric acids are members. Most of rosin is an resin acid
Resin soap derivative from Kraft process, should be merged into resin acid
Resin extraction very short article about tapping living trees, should be merged probably. how much good/y? how many years, use of H2SO4
Black liquor, from which tall oil comes
Turpentine, distillate of oleoresin
Pine oil a term that means many thing, but most pine oils contain turpentine
Essential oil, oleoresin, not only from conifers
Resin which includes rosin but is a more general term
pitch (resin) "... plant-derived pitch, a resin, is known as rosin ... a traditional naval store, was traditionally used to help caulk.."

--Smokefoot (talk) 16:21, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]