Chem. Also tec-. [Named 1839 by Forchhammer, app. ‘f. Gr. τήκειν to melt, dissolve + ῥντἰνη resin, because separated by solution in hot alcohol’ (Chester).] A resin similar to or identical with Fichtelite.
1841. Amer. Jrnl Sci. & Arts, XLI. No 2, July–Sept., 402. We have received a letter from Prof. Forchhammer … stating that he was about to send a paper for this Journal on some new compounds…. ‘They are Tekoretin = C5 H9.’ [etc.].
1858. T. E. Clark, in Amer. Jrnl. Sc., Ser. II. XXV. 767. Tekoretin, being less soluble than phylloretin, crystallized first.
1868. Dana, Min., 736. Tecoretin was obtained from pine trees [Pinus sylvestris] in marshes near Holtegard in Denmark. The resin from the wood … was found to contain two substances…. The tecoretin was the least soluble.
