Thyine wood is a 15th century English name for a wood, from the tree known botanically as Tetraclinis articulata (syn. Callitris quadrivalvis, Thuja articulata). The name of this wood is derived from the Greek

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

 word thuon, "fragrant wood" or thuein, “to sacrifice”, and it was so called because it was burnt in sacrifices, on account of its fragrance.

Another wood from this tree was called citrus, citron wood, by the Romans

Ancient Rome

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. This was reckoned very valuable, and was used for making articles of furniture by the Greeks and Romans. Thyine wood is mentioned in the King James Version of the Bible

King James Version of the Bible

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 at Rev.

Book of Revelation

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 18:12 as being among the articles which would cease to be purchased when Babylon

Babylon

Babylon was an Akkadian city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers south of Baghdad...

 fell. The New International Version translates the passage "citron wood"; the Amplified Bible translates it as "scented wood".

The resin is used as the basis for euparal

Euparal

Euparal is a synthetic microscopy mountant originally formulated in 1904 by Professor G. Gilson, the professor of Zoology at Louvain University, Louvain, Belgium...

, a mounting medium used in microscopy

Microscopy

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