10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FECULA»
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The New and Complete American Encyclopedia
Vlll. 0/ the Fecula of Vegetables. The Fecula seems to be only a flight alteration of
Mucilage ; for it differs from it only in being insoluble in cold water, in which it falls
with great quickness. But if put into hot water, it resumes all its characters of ...
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A Compendium of the Course of Chemical Instruction in the ...
OF FECULA OR STARCH. A substance, of which starch is a good specimen, and
of which the generic name is fecula, may be obtained from the meal or flour of
grain, and from the roots of the potato and other vegetables. It is more or less a ...
3
A dictionary of chemistry and mineralogy: with an account of ...
The root or grain employed must first be thoroughly bruised, rasped, or broken
down in any way, and then washed with a quantity of cold water, which becomes
immediately turbid, and if the fecula is white, milky ; and simply holds the fecula ...
Arthur Aikin, Charles Rochemont Aikin, 1807
Biot has said, that Leeuwenhoeck observed the grain of fecula (rather farina) to
be composed of a vesicle and a soluble substance, which is ite nutritive pari,
since nothing but the shells or husks are met wiih in the dung of animals. Now
these ...
5
Elements of Chemistry, and Natural History: To which is ...
All the vegetable parts of solids, strictly speaking, afford a kind of fecula: but we
shall here more particularly speak of such as are prepared by art for food or
medicines The fecula, of bryony, potatoe, cassava, sago, salop, and starch, are
those ...
comte Antoine-François de Fourcroy, 1800
On the contrary, if the mixture of fecula and sulphuric acid has been left to itself
during half-an-hour, the fecula which the alcohol separated from it becomes
completely soluble in cold water. Crystallisable acetic acid, heated to 212° F. in a
...
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THE CHEMIST, A MONTHLY JOURNAL. VOL. II. 1855.
On the contrary, if the mixture of fecula and sulphuric acid has been left to itself
during half-an-hour, the fecula which the alcohol separated from it becomes
completely soluble. in cold water. Crystallisable acetic acid, heated to 212° F. in a
...
JOHN & CHARLES WATT, EDITORS, 1855
On the contrary, if the mixture of fecula and sulphuric acid has been left to itself
during half-an-hour, the fecula which the alcohol separated from it becomes
completely soluble .in cold water. Crystallisable acetic acid, heated to 212° F. in a
...
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Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal
... 6. fecula ; 7. apocynine, a bitter principle ; 8. colouring matter ; 9. woody matter.
The milky juice is conjectured to contain caoutchouc. When introduced into the
stomach, it causes first squeamishness, then vomiting, afterwards, if in sufficient ...
10
Encyclopaedia Londinensis
nourishing fecula, which they call caffaw. They strip the root, rasp it, and put it into
a sack of rushes, made in the form of a cone, and of a very open texture, which
they suspend to a staff, placed across two upright posts. At the lower extremity of
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2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FECULA»
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fecula is used in the context of the following news items.
Up Shit Creek, Sans Paddle: On David Waltner-Toews's The Origin …
... and “crap”) to the euphemistic (“poop” and “BM”) to the technical (“biosolids” and “fecula”). This chapter is hilarious and often enlightening. «The Millions, May 13»
10 Ghastly Sounding Food Additives That Are (Mostly) Harmless
Sounds like: Fill in the blank: I administered the enema. Five minutes later, out flew the ______! Don't lie, "fecula" sounds like it belongs there, ... «io9, May 12»
