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  2. Cochineal - Wikipedia

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    Cochineal dye was extensively used in the Pre-Columbian era, often for ceremonial textiles and those worn by rulers.: 12–25 The dye bonds best with animal fibers rather than plant fibers and was most effective for dying wool from alpacas and other Camelidae, rabbit fur, and feathers. It was also used on cottons and plant-based fabrics, to ...

  3. Almond bark - Wikipedia

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    Almond bark (also known as vanilla flavored candy coating) is a chocolate -like confection made with vegetable fats instead of cocoa butter and with coloring and flavors added. It can be bought in packages, blocks, or round discs where candy and baking supplies are sold. [1] The confection is commonly used to cover or dip fruits, caramel, oats ...

  4. Metal-complex dyes - Wikipedia

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    Metal-complex dyes are a family of dyes that contain metals coordinated to the organic portion. Many azo dyes, especially those derived from naphthols, form metal complexes by complexation of one of the azo nitrogen centers. The insertion of the metal into the organic ligand often involves redox reactions, e.g. pre-reaction of sodium dichromate ...

  5. Cooking on the Wild Side - Wikipedia

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    7 (ongoing) Cooking on the Wild Side is a cooking show hosted by Phyllis Speer and John Philpot on the Arkansas Educational Television Network (AETN) and produced by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. [1] The show was originally part of Arkansas Outdoors, and featured many cooking segments from that series alongside new content.

  6. Arak (drink) - Wikipedia

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    Arak is traditionally made of grapes and aniseed (the seeds of the anise plant); when crushed, their oil provides arak with a slight licorice taste. [1] Dates, figs, and other fruits are sometimes added. [2] Typically, arak is a minimum of 50% alcohol by volume (ABV), and can be up to 70% ABV (126 proof ). [2] A 53% ABV is considered typical.

  7. List of dyes - Wikipedia

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    65589-70-0. 10597-46-3 (hydrochloride) Alcian Blue 8GX. Alcian Blue. Ingrain Blue 1. 74240. phthalocyanine. 75881-23-1. Alcian yellow GXS.

  8. Dye - Wikipedia

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    Dye. Drying colored cloth. Chemical structure of indigo dye, the blue coloration of blue jeans. Although once extracted from plants, indigo dye is now almost exclusively synthesized industrially. [1] A dye is a colored substance that chemically bonds to the substrate to which it is being applied. This distinguishes dyes from pigments which do ...

  9. Turmeric - Wikipedia

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    Turmeric (/ ˈ t ɜːr m ər ɪ k, ˈ tj uː-/), (botanical name Curcuma longa (/ ˈ k ɜːr k j ʊ m ə ˈ l ɒ ŋ ɡ ə /),) is a flowering plant in the ginger family Zingiberaceae.It is a perennial, rhizomatous, herbaceous plant native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia that requires temperatures between 20 and 30 °C (68 and 86 °F) and high annual rainfall to thrive.