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A West Indian tree (Picraena excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
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A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference.
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A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium.
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A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O.
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A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, C2O2N3H5, formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.
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