turps

Turps is toxic if ingested, and it’s not clear if the rosin byproduct of turps production still contains some amount of turps.

Over here, gum turps is at least four to five times more expensive than mineral turps, at minimum it costs around $28/litre versus $5-6/litre for the mineral stuff.

Comparing their harmful effects they're as different as chalk and cheese with gum turps being substantially more toxic.

Its not just a right wing problem, there's plenty of crazy hippies pushing turps and jilly juice.

BTW, Shellite† is our version (concoction) of naphtha, it's much more flammable ('explosively' so) than turps.

Mad as a hit the turps piece of piss as stands out like down under.

The term 'mineral spirit' for mineral turpentine (aka mineral turps) is rarely used here.

I loathe the smell of turps, I wouldn’t eat anything that had any chance of coming into contact with it.

Paint shops stock mineral turps along with acetone and DCM.

Turning now to gum/wood turps, from your description it seems the stuff to which you are referring is very different to the type that's available over here.

As with all SDSs, almost every warning possible is described but for mineral turps two particularly relevant points stand out which are 'Mutagenicity: Not mutagenic' and 'Carcinogenicity: Limited evidence…'.

Here, labels on containers of mineral turps are always titled with the name 'Mineral Turpentine' followed by its UN number and description, ie: UN-1300, Turpentine substitute.

According to what I've been reading vaporists in Colorado are experimenting in this area attempting to isolate the best "turps".