A pastille or pastil is a mixture of pleasant-smelling gum-resin made up into small cones and burned in an apartment to give it a pleasant perfume. Pastilles were also formerly made into pills, and used by smokers to give the breath an aromatic odour. Research Pastille
Ginger is various species of perennial plant of the genus Zingiber, family Zingiberaceae found native in south east Asia, and also grown in the West Indies, South America and Africa of which Jamaican ginger is the most prized variety. Ginger grows in moist places in various parts of tropical Asia and the Asiatic islands, and was introduced into the West Indies, particularly Jamaica, as also into South America and West Africa. The rhizome, or underground stem, is what is used, being employed in various ways. It has an aromatic, pungent taste, and when young is candied, and makes an excellent preserve. It is a favourite condiment, and is used medicinally as a carminative, and in debility of the stomach and alimentarycanal. It is often useful in cases of toothache, relaxation of the uvula, and paralytic affections of the tongue. It enters into the composition of a great number of confections, infusions, pills, etc. The special preparations are the tincture and the essence of ginger; syrup, prepared by mixing twenty-five parts of syrup with one of the strong tincture. Infusion of ginger is a preparation useful for flatulence. Research Ginger
Thomas D'Urfey was an English poet and wit. He was born in 1653 at Exeter and died in 1723. The grandson of a French Protestant refugee, he abandoned law for literature, and wrote a large number of comedies of a licentious character. Thomas D'Urfey's name is now principally remembered in connection with his Pills to Purge Melancholy, a collection of songs and ballads, partly his own, and many of them coarse or licentious. His society was generally courted by the witty and he enjoyed the favour of four successive monarchs. Research Thomas D'Urfey
Thomas Holloway was an English pharmacist. He was born in 1800 and died in 1883. A proprietor of the popular pills, ointment, etc, he founded a sanatorium or asylum for the 'insane', and hospitals for incurables and convalescents, at Egham, Surrey, in 1873; and also at the same place the Royal Holloway College, designed to supply the best and most suitable education for women of the middle classes. The college, which was opened queen Victoria in 1886, contained a collection of pictures of the value of 100,000 pounds. The total cost of the two institutions was about a million pounds sterling. Research Thomas Holloway
N-hexane is a chemical made from crude oil. It is used in laboratories, primarily when it is mixed with similar chemicals to produce solvents. Common names for these solvents are commercial hexane, mixed hexanes, petroleumether, and petroleum naphtha. The major use for solvents containing n- hexane is to extract vegetable oils from crops such as soybeans, flax, peanuts, and safflowerseed. They are also used as cleaning agents in the textile, furniture, shoemaking, and printing industries, particularly rotogravure printing.
N-hexane is also an ingredient of special glues that are used in the roofing, shoe, and leather industries. N-hexane is used in binding books, working leather, shaping pills and tablets, canning, manufacturing tyres, and making baseballs. Consumer products that contain small amounts of n-hexane include petrol, rubbercement, type over correction fluids, non-mercury thermometers, alcohol preparations, and aerosols in perfumes.
N-hexane is also a component of preparations such as paint thinners, general purpose solvents, degreasing agents, or cleaners. N-hexane is a colourless liquid with a slightly disagreeable odour. It evaporates very easily into the air and dissolves only slightly in water. It is highly flammable, and its vapours can be explosive. It may be ignited by heat, sparks, and flames. Flammable vapour may spread away from a spill.
N-hexane can react vigorously with oxidizing materials such as liquid chlorine, concentrated oxygen, and sodium hypochlorite. It will attack some forms of plastics, rubber, and coatings. It is insoluble in water and miscible with alcohol, chloroform, and ether. It is incompatible with strong oxidizers. N-hexane is also known as hexane and hexyl hydride. Research N-hexane
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