Most infection comes directly from the soil or from plants, but cats can also be infected (when the fungus gets into fight wounds or fresh flea bites) and can shed the fungus from weeping skin wounds. Humans with skin wounds can be infected by contact with the cat's weeping sores. It can be treated.
Application. Î±-Pinene was used as standard in headspace solid-phase microextraction-gas chromatographic analysis of volatile compounds in virgin olive oils 1. It was used in the synthesis of cesium-doped heteropolyacid having potential application in biodiesel synthesis 2.
Pinene, for example, smells like woodland, while limonene smells of lemon. They have other uses too; oil of turpentine, a mixture of several different terpene chemicals distilled from pine sap, is traditionally used in oil painting. Some terpenes and their derivatives are even used as medicines.