resin
Many trees exude resin after injury. This topic is part of Materials within Science & Nature. This page currently draws on 15 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
resin trivia questions
Resin is a sticky substance commonly produced by what?
Answer: Plants
Bonus fact: Many trees exude resin after injury.
What fossilized tree resin can preserve ancient insects?
Answer: Amber
Bonus fact: Amber is hardened ancient resin.
Pine resin contains volatile compounds that can be distilled into what solvent?
Answer: Turpentine
Bonus fact: Turpentine historically comes from pine resin.
Amber is formed from the fossilized resin of what kind of organism?
Answer: Trees
Bonus fact: Amber begins as sticky plant resin that hardens and can survive for millions of years.
What two-part adhesive hardens when a resin and hardener chemically react?
Answer: Epoxy
Bonus fact: Epoxy adhesives cure through a chemical reaction between resin and hardener.
Frankincense is an aromatic resin obtained from trees in which genus?
Answer: Boswellia
Bonus fact: Frankincense comes from resin tapped from Boswellia trees.
Myrrh, another ancient incense material, is a resin from trees in which genus?
Answer: Commiphora
Bonus fact: Myrrh is harvested from Commiphora species native mainly to northeastern Africa and Arabia.
Incense is burned mainly to produce what?
Answer: Fragrant smoke
Bonus fact: Incense releases aromatic smoke from plant resins, woods, herbs, or other materials.
Cashews belong to the same plant family as mangoes and poison ivy. Which family?
Answer: Anacardiaceae
Bonus fact: Anacardiaceae includes several plants with irritating resins.
Amber fossils are organisms preserved in hardened ancient what?
Answer: Tree resin
Bonus fact: Sticky resin can trap insects and other small organisms.
Amber is best described as fossilized what?
Answer: Resin
Bonus fact: Amber forms when ancient resin polymerizes and hardens over geologic time.
Rosin is traditionally derived from what?
Answer: Pine resin
Bonus fact: Rosin is the solid residue left after distilling turpentine from resin.