The terebinth is also known as this tree, as it yielded probably the earliest form of a paint solvent & thinner
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Turpentine - Wikipedia  Turpentine is a fluid obtained by the distillation of resin obtained from live trees, mainly pines. It is mainly used as a solvent and as a source of materials for organic ... One of the earliest sources was the terebinth or turpentine tree (Pistacia terebinthus), ... Canada balsam, also called Canada turpentine or balsam of fir, is a...
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turpentine - Medical dictionary  [G. terebinthinos, pertaining to terebinthos, the terebinth tree] Canada t. ... 2 a) an essential oil obtained from turpentines by distillation and used esp. as a solvent and thinner called also ... of various oleoresins derived from coniferous trees and yielding a volatile oil ... turpentine  A high quality oil paint thinner and solvent.
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Turpentine | Define Turpentine at Dictionary.com  Also called Chian turpentine. an oleoresin exuded by the terebinth, Pistacia ... Origin of turpentine ... use of feminine of terebinthnus of the turpentine tree, equivalent to terebinth (us) ... It is an essential oil containing a mixture of terpenes and is used as a solvent for paints and in ... It is used as a paint thinner and solvent.
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Turpentine dictionary definition | turpentine defined - YourDictionary  the brownish-yellow, sticky, semifluid oleoresin exuding from the terebinth; any of the ... Origin of turpentine ... Latin terebinthinus, of the turpentine tree ; from terebinthus: see terebinth ... of certain pine trees and used as a paint thinner, solvent, and medicinally as a liniment. Also called oil of turpentine, spirit of turpentine.
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Jeopary Questions page 1355 - THE "IDE"S OF MARCH ...  ALL BARK: The terebinth is also known as this tree, as it yielded probably the earliest form of a paint solvent & thinner  BEFORE & AFTER: Resigning as Chief...
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Who discovered electricity? It is super cool but I - UCSB Science Line  ... discovered static electricity, but they observed that rubbing fossilized tree resin, or amber, ... An English physicist named William Gilbert writes books on the attractive nature of amber and uses the Latin word "electricus" to describe it. ... books, and in his books on physics comes up with the word electricity to describe his...
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Pagan Paradise Christmas Trees  Dec 21, 2000 ... And serpent decorations were placed around these early trees! ... i.e., the serpents in the hair of the Medusa, denote that these various planetoids and moons ... Tree 1967 makes me think of the "Stairway To Heaven". ... There is scholarly consensus, however, that the Christmas tree originated in Germany.
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Conceptual drawing: recent work by Bernhard Sachs, Mike Parr ...  Jan 28, 2010 ... And then the last, not least, the most important thing is that some transfer ... which he called social sculpture, would transform art and life. ... Drawing is both the first step towards abstraction, yet also an .... an intensely charged line made by gauging directly into the metal plate. .... Each tree was frottaged.
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Ridiculous KJV Bible Corrections - The Pitch of Noah's Ark  The resin of pine, or turpentine, inspissated; used in caulking ships and .... The Latin word that appears in this quote of Pliny, as well as in the Latin Vulgate's translation of Gen. ... Dry distillation of wood results in a tar distillate and a pitch residue. ... As for the tree, its etymology may be derived from the use of cypress as pitch...
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Tree and Shrub Descriptions - NYS Dept. of Environmental ...  Dense pyramidal shape when young, becoming more open and flat-topped with age. ... These pine plantations stabilized the soil and provided shelter for eventual .... Cones upright, 2 to 3 inches long, disintegrate on tree leaving persistent ..... The leaves often have an almost rhombic outline with wedge-shaped base, rather...
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Rainforest Layers - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute  These scattered tallest trees form what is called the emergent layer. ... A few powerful wingbeats carry it from one treetop to another as it seeks its prey,...
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Vol 13, Number 3, Fall 1997 - Calvert Marine Museum  Amber is a hardened form of tree resin - originally exuded as a protective ... Amber also varies in opacity from very murky to extremely transparent. In ... It may come as a surprise to some, but beyond the exhibit spaces that will house ... paleobiologist who works on fossil insects and plant-insect interactions. .... inside forever.
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jeopardy/1718_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  OBJETS D'ART | Surprisingly, the name of this type of painting isn't from minimus, "small", but from minium, a red lead pigment | a miniature. right: Wrong: Triple...
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Watercolor Painting in Britain, 17501850 | Essay | Heilbrunn ...  The technique of water-based painting dates to ancient times, and belongs to ... Watercolor (or watercolour/water-colour) is named for its primary ... Initially, artists ground their own colors from natural pigments, or else bought ... In the second half of the nineteenth century, Pre-Raphaelite painters used ... amateur artists.
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The Write Stuff: How the Humble Pencil Conquered the World  Aug 16, 2016 ... From sticks of graphite wrapped in string to mechanical pencils made of ... The result was a rectangular writing implement and the world's first wooden pencils. ... to Henry Petroski's The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance. ... little to no knowledge of Cont's method, according to Petroski's book.
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Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicolaes Tulp, Rembrandt: Analysis ...  For analysis of other pictures, see: Famous Paintings Analyzed. ... out of which Rembrandt created one of the greatest portrait paintings of the early 17th century, was his first group portrait as well as the first known instance of him signing a picture ... Hung alongside The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Tulp, in the city's Anatomical...
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FDMC > Materials > Wood Explorer - FDMC Digital  Zebrawood (Microberlinia brazzavillensis), also known as zebrano, is a West African tree, ... The Latin species name is derived from a city in the Congo, Brazzaville. ... The tree can live for a 1,000 years, so the stem is often several feet (up to 13 feet) in diameter. ... Tupelo, Miss., (Elvis' birthplace) was named after this tree.
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Bonsai growing into an art form native to Appalachians  Oct 22, 2005 ... Many of the plants in the North Carolina Arboretum have been grown from ... While the mystique of miniature trees may have originated a millennium ago in Asia, bonsai ... A horticultural art form that originated in Asia about 1,000 years ago, ... He was trying to show the younger guys how to turn it around.
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bark - Search-ID.com  Bark, also known as perierm, is the outermost layer of stems and roots of woody plants such as trees. ... stuff that covers trees; This follows "shag" in the name of a hickory tree because it breaks up into loosely attached plates as the tree ages...
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Jeopary Questions page 979 - SCULPTURE - TriviaBistro.com  IT GROWS ON TREES: This type of orange is so named because it has a small secondary fruit growing at the end .... LABOR: In 1802 England passed the first law against this type of labor that Dickens attacked in "Oliver Twist"  NONMETALS:...
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This question originally aired on November 25,... | Jeopardy ...  ... on November 25, 1999 Category: ART & ARTISTS Question: This style of painting is characterized by broad transparent areas of paint called washes Answer:.