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    ornaments and dye for wool and silk in ancient India and neighbouring areas. Lac resin was once imported in sizeable quantity into Europe from India along with...
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    Kerria lacca (redirect from True lac scale)
    perhaps the most commercially important lac insect, being a main source of lac, a resin which can be refined into shellac and other products. This insect is...
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  • Nations Lac (resin), a resinous substance produced by insects Shellac, the processed form of this resin Lac, French for lake (body of water) lác, an element...
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    Kerriidae (redirect from Lac insect)
    Kerria lacca – true lac scale Paratachardina decorella – rosette lac scale Paratachardina pseudolobata – lobate lac scale Shellac Lac (resin) Ben-Dov, Yair;...
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    animal resins are not as common as either plant or synthetic resins some animal resins like lac (obtained from Kerria lacca) are used for applications like...
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    gelatin, and confectioner's glaze. The confectioner's glaze is made from lac resin, a bug secretion. A popular variation called "harvest corn" adds cocoa...
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    Shellac (redirect from Lac culture)
    Shellac (/ʃəˈlæk/) is a resin secreted by the female lac bug on trees in the forests of India and Thailand. Chemically, it is mainly composed of aleuritic...
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    Upanishads where it is known as lakshaya rasa meaning red-lac dye pigment derived from lac resin as one of sixteen adornments of woman known as solah-shringar...
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    Amber (redirect from Elektron (resin))
    Amber is fossilized tree resin. Examples of it have been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since the Neolithic times, and worked as a gemstone...
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  • identity. The lac, a resin secreted by lac insects, is sourced from regions like Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. The artisans begin by boiling the lac in water...
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    called as “Thewa Ki Patti” is fixed to a lac-resin compound spread on a board by slightly warming the lac and then pressing the gold sheet onto it. An...
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    Varnish (section Resin)
    around a sink or bathtub. The source of shellac resin is a brittle or flaky secretion of the female lac insect, Kerria lacca, found in the forests of Assam...
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    The Indian Institute of Natural Resins and Gums (acronym IINRG), formerly known as the Indian Lac Research Institute, is an autonomous institute, established...
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    Lacquer (category Resins)
    language Sanskrit, and originally referred to shellac, a resin produced by special insects ('lac insects') from the sap of an Indian fig tree ... Franco...
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  • of parchment reds from Indian Redwood green earths and copper Greens lac (resin) and cinnabar reds azurite blues blues from woad (Isatis tinctoria) pinks...
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  • Forest Mem., (1909), Vo. II, Pt 1. 9. Analytical Constants of Shellac, Lac, Resin and Lac Wax by Puran Singh, J. Soc. Chem. Ind., (1910), Vol. XXIX, p. 1435...
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  • different pathway. lacquer, lac لكّ lakk, [lk] (listen) lac. The Arabic came from the Sanskrit lākh = "lac", a particular kind of resin, native in India, used...
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    Schleichera (redirect from Lac tree)
    trijuga (Willd.) Spreng. The tree is a host of the lac bug Kerria lacca, whose female secretes a resin known as shellac to form a tunnel-like tube as it...
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  • shellac. The shellac is derived from the raw material sticklac, which is a resin scraped from the branches of trees left from when the small insect, Kerria...
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    Bakelite (category Phenol formaldehyde resins)
    poly­oxy­benzyl­methylene­glycol­anhydride, is a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, formed from a condensation reaction of phenol with formaldehyde. The first...
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  • for shellac (made from the excretion of lac bugs). Chemists had begun to recognize that many natural resins and fibres were polymers, and Baekeland investigated...
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    a crucial host for the lac bug (Laccifer lacca), which creates shellac. It produces the most lac sticks per hectare of any lac tree. The bark produces...
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    Polylactic acid (redirect from Pla resin)
    used. Apart from lactic acid and lactide, lactic acid O-carboxyanhydride ("lac-OCA"), a five-membered cyclic compound has been used academically as well...
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    Riding Mountain Band) Koocheching First Nation Lac des Mille Lacs First Nation Lac La Croix First Nation Lac Seul First Nation Lake Nipigon Ojibway First...
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    spruce roots and rendered waterproof by the application of heated spruce resin and bear grease. During winter, toboggans were used to transport material...
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    high molecular weight polyethylene resin; The recovery of low molecular weight fractions from high molecular weight resin production. Each production technique...
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    connected to the tang of the blade by a very powerful adhesive resin. This resin, or lac, is derived from the peepal tree, it is softened by heating and...
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    fire to make them hard. he had covered the plate with a mixture of pine resin, wax, and paper ashes. When he wished to print, he took an iron frame and...
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    monosperma is used for timber, resin, fodder, herbal medicine, and dyeing. Butea[clarification needed] is also a host to the lac insect, which produces natural...
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    He observed that the house of lacquer contained the substances of hemp, resin, straw, as well as bamboos, all of which were soaked in ghee, making it...
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