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Notes -Translucent, crystalline, -The material may retain -Insoluble in water but can -Musk tends to
pearly- white masses, its odor for centuries, and incorporate it. gradually crystallize by time.
-Oily in touch with a little stays as amorphous, with -Test of identity (Cholesterol): 1 g -Since obtaining of natural
odor or taste. no tendency to fat in 3 ml acetic anhydride + musk requires killing the
crystallize (c.f. Musk). 0.3 ml H 2SO 4 endangered animal, nearly all
pink, green blue color. muskone used in
perfumery today is
synthetic
-Artificial musk is a
synthetic product obtained
by condensing toluene with
isobutyl bromide in the
presence of aluminum
chloride followed by nitrating
the product.

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