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HARTSHORN [3 records]

Record 1 2013-05-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Interior Design (General)
OBS

Hartshorn : Trade name for shade rollers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture d'intérieurs (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry
DEF

Dark brown oil with a disagreeable odor, derived by destructive distillation of bones or other animal substances.

OBS

Use: alcohol denaturant, insecticide, source of pyrrole, organic preparations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie
DEF

[...] liquide qu'on obtient en rectifiant le produit huileux de la distillation sèche des os, de la corne et des autres substances animales analogues. Dippel la recommandait comme médicament antihystérique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Química
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Record 3 2011-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
  • Food Additives
  • Medication
Universal entry(ies)
DEF

The normal ammonium salt of carbonic acid, prepared by passing gaseous carbon dioxide into an aqueous solution of ammonia and allowing the vapors (ammonia, carbon dioxide, water) to crystallize.

OBS

A mixture of ammonium acid carbonate and ammonium carbamate which appears under the form of colorless, crystalline plates or of a white powder, is unstable in air, has a strong odor of ammonia, has a sharp ammoniacal taste, is soluble in water, decomposes in hot water, yielding ammonia and carbon dioxide, is noncombustible and is used in ammonium salts, in medicine (as an expectorant), in baking powders, in smelling-salts, in fire-extinguishing compounds, in pharmaceuticals, in textiles (as a mordant), as a fermentation accelerator in wine manufacture, in organic chemicals, in ceramics and for washing wool.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
  • Additifs alimentaires
  • Médicaments
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Matière première officinale constituée de carbonate mono-ammonique et de carbamate d'ammonium.

OBS

[...] employé notamment comme poudre levante.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Elementos y compuestos químicos
  • Aditivos alimentarios
  • Medicamentos
Entrada(s) universal(es)
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