Editing Pinus roxburghii (section)

=== Resin ===
It is also tapped commercially for [[resin]]. On [[distillation]], the resin yields an essential oil, commonly known as [[turpentine]], and non-volatile [[rosin]]. The proportion of rosin and turpentine oil in chir pine is 75% and 22% respectively with 3% losses, etc.

The turpentine is chiefly used as a solvent in pharmaceutical preparations, perfume industry, in manufacture of synthetic pine oil, disinfectants, insecticides and denaturants. It is one of the most important basic raw materials for the synthesis of [[terpene]] chemicals which are used in a wide variety of industries such as adhesives, paper and rubber, etc.

Chir pine rosin is principally used in paper, [[soap]], cosmetics, paint, varnish, rubber and polish industries. Besides these, other uses include manufacture of linoleum, explosives, insecticides and disinfectants, as a flux in soldering, in brewing and in mineral beneficiation as a frothing agent.

Presently, India imports resin which is far superior in quality as well as cheaper than the indigenous one. Quality of resin depends on the [[pinene]] content. Imported resin contains 75–95% pinenes, whereas chir pine resin contains only about 25% pinenes.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}