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The history of the chemical analysis of beeswax is a long and tortuous one, extending back to the eighteenth century. It has been documented by Grün and Halden (1929). Substantial progress has been made over the last 50 years and has gone hand in hand with the development of a sophisticated technology. Particularly important contributions have come from the the crystallographic methods used by Chibnall and his colleagues in the 1930s; Downing’s group in the 1960s and those of Tulloch and Stransky in the 1970s (Callow 1963; Tulloch 1980).
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Hepburn, H.R. (1986). Composition and Synthesis of Beeswax. In: Honeybees and Wax. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71458-0_5
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