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Sandarac

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sandarac [′san·də‚rak]
(mineralogy)
realgar
Sandarac 

a yellow resin obtained by tapping sandarac trees of the family Cupressaceae (cypresses), including Callitris preissi (Australia) and Tetraclinis articulata (North Africa). Sandarac yields a colorless alcoholic lacquer used for coating pictures and impregnating cardboard; the lacquer is also used in photography and in dentistry.
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Mr Jackson's calligraphic art - complete with its awls and quills, its uncials and sandarac, its vellum and palimpsest - could hardly be any more ancient.
In praise of... Donald Jackson by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
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When that happens, the scribe scrapes away the error with a fine blade and then brushes the area with sandarac, a kind of tree resin ground into powder.
As it is written by D'AULAIRE, EMILY / U.S. Catholic
 
 
 
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