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Encyclopedia Britannica



POPPY OIL (Oleum papaveris)

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 92 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: POL-PRE
POPPY OIL (Oleum papaveris) , a vegetable oil obtained by pressure from the minute seeds of the
garden
 , or opium poppy, Pa paver somniferum. The
white
 -seeded and black-seeded varieties are both used for oil-pressing; but, when the production of oil is the
principal
  object of the culture, the black seed is usually preferred. The qualities of the' oil yielded by both varieties and the proportion they contain (from 50 to 6o%) are the same, By cold pressing seeds of fine quality yield from 30 to 40% of virgin or
white
  oil (huile
blanche
 ), a transparent limpid fluid with a slight yellowish tinge, bland and pleasant to
taste
 , and with almost no perceptible smell. On second pressure with the aid of heat an additional 20 to 25% of inferior oil (huile de fabrique or huile russe) is obtained, reddish in colour, possessed
of a biting
taste
 , and a linseed-like smell. The oil belongs to the linoleic or drying
series
 , having as its
principal
  constituent linolein; and it possesses greater drying power than raw linseed oil. Its specific gravity at 15 C. is 0.925. Poppy oil is a valuable and much used medium for artistic oil
painting
 . The fine qualities are largely used in the north of France (huile d' ceillette) and in Germany as a salad oil, and are less liable than olive oil to rancidity. The absence of taste and characteristic smell in poppy oil also leads to its being much used for adulterating olive oil. The inferior qualities are principally consumed in soap-making and varnish-making, and for burning in lamps. The oil is very extensively used in the valley of the Ganges and other opium regions for food and domestic purposes. By native methods in India about 30% of oil is extracted, and the remaining oleaginous cake is used as food by the poor.
Ordinary
  poppy-oil cake is a valuable feeding material,
rich
  in nitrogenous constituents, with an ash showing an unusually large proportion of phosphoric acid. The seed of the yellow horned poppy, Glaucium luteum, yields from 30 to 35% of an oil having the same drying and other properties as poppy oil; and from the Mexican poppy, Argemone mexicana, is obtained a non-drying oil used as a lubricant and for burning.


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