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I have to ask: is terpene an actual scientifically defined word? I've only ever heard stoners use it to describe different marijuana strain's scents. Googling
by elhudy 8y ago
I have to ask: is terpene an actual scientifically defined word? I've only ever heard stoners use it to describe different marijuana strain's scents. Googling it yields nothing but pot-related results. How have I made it through so many years of studying plethoras of high level scientific subjects and am just now hearing this word? Now on HN nonetheless...
- tetrep 8y agoWikipedia is usually a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpene
- kylek 8y agoIANA (botanist, chemist?), but terpenoids are in most plants, e.g. pinene is abundant in pine trees, responsible for their smell, and happens to modulate cannabis’s subjective effects in very interesting ways. A blend good for sleep might have a good amount of THC and CBN (and maybe some CBD) plus the mycrene and beta-caryophyllene terpenes (associated with the more sedating strains). Indica/sativa don’t really mean anything, strains are mostly just variations of terpenes.
- pizza 8y agoSee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpene and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpenoid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpenoid
- refurb 8y agoAs a chemist, yes, terpenes are actual things. Natural products made up of 5 carbon units called isoprenes!
- dekhn 8y agoyep, terpenes are organic compounds found in a wide range of plants. It's one of the reason pine trees smell so nice.