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    a solvent Botanone is an effective and common solvent used in processes which involving gums, resins, cellulose acetate, nitrocellulose, and vinyl films. For this reason, it finds its use in the plastic and textile industry, in the production of paraffin wax, and in household products such as varnish, varnish, paint remover, change agent for deformation of alcohol, glue, and as a cleaning agent. It has solvent properties similar to acetone but has a much slower rate. Potanon is also used in dry…

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    Ann Landers once said “Love is friendship that has caught on fire, It settles less than perfection and makes allowances for human weakness.” In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins’,the overarching theme is teenage love. The main character is Katniss Everdeen. Katniss and Peeta both fall for each other. Peeta told Katniss that he had a crush on her on the 1st day of school. They both work together on the games. Teenage love can be complicated for some people and by the relationship that Katniss…

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    Coconut Oil Essay

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    Introduction: Coconut oil is basically edible oil obtained from drupe of Cocos nucifera. Coconut oil is one of the most easily available edible oil and is very economical and use in every house globally. Majorly coconut oil consist of triglycerols and fatty acids. Coconut oil contains about 90% saturated fatty acids. Of which lauric acid is the main component (47.5% by wt), followed by Myristic acid (18.1% by wt) and palmitic acid (8.8% by wt). Major triglycerols aretrilaurin…

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    Benefits Of Chewing Gum

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    The Benefits of Chewing Gum on Oral Health (F) Chewing gum should be added into your daily oral care routine. It has many possible benefits on oral health: it kills bacteria, freshens breath, removes unwanted leftover food that may be stuck in teeth, and can even remineralize teeth and prevent cavities. Many different kinds of gum are offered on the market. One may prefer a specific gum because of its added benefits like xylitol or gum with CPP-ACP. Other preferences may be its flavor or…

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    William Street Journey

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    imagery to describe the smells you would come across on a journey through William street. Slessor using alliteration describes the smells of a what seems to be a fish and chip shop; for example, “smells rich and rasping, smoke fat and fish and puffs of paraffin that crimp the nose”. In this poem Slessor’s purpose is to take the audience on a journey through a place typically…

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    Body Fat Research Paper

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    acids have a fundamental role because we can not synthesize them: they are mainly polyunsaturated fatty acids, which are present in certain vegetable oils in significant quantities: corn, soybean, sunflower oil. They are sometimes called vitamin F. Paraffin oil holds a special place. In fact, it is not absorbed by the body and therefore does not bring any calories, but has no food value either. It thus forms a sort of carpet slipping over the intestinal walls, and as such renders excellent…

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    Originally Verity believes that she will never make it out alive by this godforsaken place. “About the paraffin, kerosene, whatever it is. I do not really believe you have a liter of kerosene to waste on me. Or did you get it on the black market? How do you claim the expense? 1 lt. highly explosive fuel for execution of British spy. Anyway, I will do my best…

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    from railroads that the cost of transporting his oil be cheaper. (The New Tycoons) Rockefeller saw that “There are many by-products when crude oil is converted to kerosene. What others saw as waste, Rockefeller saw as gold. He sold one byproduct paraffin to candlemakers and another byproduct petroleum jelly to medical supply companies. He even sold off other "waste" as paving materials for roads.” As a result of making his oil so cheap to the consumers he was easily able to buy out all of his…

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    petroleum makes it hard for new investors to choose biofuel over the well-known profit industry of petroleum-fuels which not only consist of gasoline and natural gas, but also from its derived coproducts such as lubricants, wax, alkenes, sulfuric acid paraffin wax and many more. (3) The process of creating biofuels is by the process of converting starch from corn, cereal, sugar cane and many other sugar rich biomasses into sugar, fermentation and finally distillation (4). This process was…

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    would be no need for a reply, which was when the delivery boy or girl didn’t need to wait. Telegraphs were the way of informing the soldier’s family if the soldier had been injured, killed, or had gone missing. That is the reason, why people got very anxious when a telegraph came. Wireless telegraph is a method of communicating using radio waves. The soldiers in the trenches used wireless telegraphy sets to send and receive messages to the generals in the headquarters. This was a good way of…

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