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jeopardy/2007_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  GEOGRAPHIC PHRASES | Ficus elastica, which grows in southern Asia, produces this substance used to make erasers | Indian rubber. right: Wrong: Triple...
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Rubber - CreationWiki, the encyclopedia of creation science  Aug 10, 2014 ... Rubber is one of mans most used products and has been used for thousands of years. ... The rubber tree is not the only plant that produces rubber; you can .... It can also be found in South America, southeast Asia, and western Africa. Its scientific name is Ficus elastica and its more common names are the...
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3.) RUBBER.ppt - 'Rubber Biscuit' The Chips 1956 Rubber Par ...  ... The Chips 1956 Rubber Par rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis and used rubber as long. ... The ancient Mayan people used latex to make rubber balls, hollow human .... Synthetic Rubber (Ficus elastica), Castilla (Panama rubber tree) euphorbias, ... is a genus of tropical trees native to southeast Asia and northern Australia.
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3RUBBER - Rubber BiscuitThe Chips1956RubberPar rubber tree ...  The ancient Mayan people used latex to make rubber balls, hollow human figures, ... a black substance about the texture of a gumtype pencil eraser was formed. .... Synthetic RubberOther plants containing latex include figs (Ficus elastica), ... and today most rubber tree plantations are in Southeast Asia and some also in...
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Tapping Trees for Natural Rubber - How Rubber Works ... - Science  Learn where natural rubber trees grow and why Southeast Asia has so many. ... Ficus elastica: found in Java and Malaysia. ... Here's how you tap one: The collector makes a thin, diagonal cut to remove a ... This process was used to make rubber items until around the 1800s. ... The eraser should get very soft and sticky.
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Plants are the Strangest People: Engineer (Ficus elastica)  Aug 25, 2011 ... So Ficus elastica is not the rubber tree, but it's a rubber tree. .... and it also appears that people stretch aerial roots from the trees to ... Full sun can also work well (it's how they grow outside, after all), but plants sold for indoor use are ... variegated varieties exist and I have no idea how to tell them apart).
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Ingredient Glossary | lavandeausoleil.com  Because of its naturally soft nature, Bentonite also makes an invigorating skin and face masque. Bentonite is a ... Shea Butter forms a water-resistant layer on the skin. Origin: .... Lemongrass is native to Asia and thrives in warm, sunny locations. ... Dead Sea Salt is extracted and solar dried from the mineral rich Dead Sea.
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Poems Found in Translation: Pushkin: The Upas Tree (From Russian)  Turned liquid in the midday blaze, ... No tigers come, no birds alight. ... And brought the poison back with haste: ... 1 The Upas Tree (Antiaris Toxicaria) produces a latex sap which, upon entering the human blood stream, causes cardiac ... This sap has historically been used in central and east Asia in blowdarts and arrows.
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Rattan - Wikipedia  Rattan (from the Malay rotan) is the name for roughly 600 species of old world climbing palms ..... The rest of the world's supply comes from the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, ... Rattans are extensively used for making furniture and baskets. ... Along with birch and bamboo, rattan is a common material used for the handles...
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Ficus religiosa - Wikipedia  Ficus religiosa or sacred fig is a species of fig native to the Indian subcontinent, south-west China and Indochina. It belongs to the Moraceae, the fig or mulberry family. It is also known as the bodhi tree, pippala tree, peepal tree or ashwattha tree (in India and Nepal).
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Natural rubber - Wikipedia  Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, as initially produced, consists of ... In most of its useful forms, it has a large stretch ratio and high resilience, and is ... include the rubber fig (Ficus elastica), Panama rubber tree (Castilla elastica), .... Natural rubber is not cultivated widely in its native continent of South...
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Strangler Figs - Ficus ssp. - Blue Planet Biomes  Figs are one of the most important plant species of a rainforest ecosystem. ... Strangler figs have made an adaptation to avoid these difficulties. ... roots that snake down the trunk of the host tree or dangle as aerial roots from its branches. ... as the world's largest tree, with 1,000 prop roots and covering an area of four acres.
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Hessian fabric - Wikipedia  Hessian /hsi.n/, Burlap in America and Canada, or Crocus in Jamaica is a woven fabric usually made from skin of the jute plant or sisal fibres, which may be combined with other vegetable fibres to make rope, nets, and similar products. Gunny cloth is similar in texture and construction. ... simply as jute as an eco-friendly material for bags, rugs and other products.
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Fruit Glossary  EyeSteelFilm  The seeds are easily removed and are covered with a thin layer of adherent pulp. ... It is related to the lychee and the longan, and is an evergreen tree that grows .... The bilimbi leaves and taste of fruit are quite similar to those of the Otaheite ..... The brown skin has a texture somewhat between sandpaper and the fuzz on a...
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Hessian fabric - Wikipedia  Hessian /hsi.n/, Burlap in America and Canada, or Crocus in Jamaica is a woven fabric usually made from skin of the jute plant or sisal ... Hessian, a dense woven fabric, has historically been produced as a coarse fabric, but more ... It is also durable enough to withstand rough handling in transit; these properties have...
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Peepul Tree - Ficus religiosa - Details - Encyclopedia of Life  The Sacred Fig has heart-shaped leaves with long tips at the end. ... is said to have gained enlightenment under a Sacred Fig called the Bodhi Tree. ... Distribution: Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Ceylon, China, Burma and .... internal bristles none; flowers of 4 kinds; male flowers ostiolar, sessile, in one ring; .... In religion[edit].
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rattan palm - Memidex dictionary/thesaurus  "rattan palm" definition: a climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India ... species of palms in the tribe Calameae, native to tropical regions of Africa, Asia and Australasia. ... the thin jointed stems of a palm, used to make furniture | a length of rattan ... tough stems | these stems used as a material for making wicker furniture,...
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Sacred fig - New World Encyclopedia  Sep 15, 2008 ... Two famous representatives of sacred fig are the Bodhi tree and the Sri Maha Bodhi ... Ficus religiosa is a type of fig; that is, a member of the genus Ficus of the ... The sacred fig is native to Sri Lanka, Nepal, and India, southwest China, ... In religious iconography, the Bodhi tree is easily recognizable from its...
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Betel-quid and Areca-nut Chewing - NCBI - National Institutes of ...  Areca-nut/betel-leaf/tobacco chewing habits are widely prevalent in many parts of Asia ... Pan masala and gutka are very popular in urban areas of India and Pakistan, ..... Also, the betel-quid chewing habit has almost vanished from large cities such as ..... Foods imported from another country that are intended for human...
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Rubber | Print Article | Academic World Book  Oct 21, 2016 ... The South American Indians called the rubber tree cahuchu, which means weeping wood. The drops of latex .... About 99 percent of all natural rubber comes from the latex of the Hevea brasiliensis. This is the tree that we call...
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Ancient Egypt: Flax and linen  Ancient Egypt: Flax - harvest, linen production: spinning, weaving ... when wet due to a high pectin content which acts like a glue under moist conditions. ... The coarser fibers of these fully matured plants were used for making strings and ropes. .... About 6th dynasty (ca 2100 BCE) cloth it was said, it was so fine it could be...