CORK, in Botany

protective, waterproof outer covering of the stems and roots of woody plants. Cork is a specialized secondary tissue produced by the cork cambium of the plant (see meristem, bark). The regularly arranged walls of cork cells are impregnated with a waxy material, called suberin, that is almost impermeable to water or gases. Commercial cork, obtained from the cork oak, is buoyant in water because of the presence of trapped air in the cavities of the waterproof dead cells. It is also resilient, light, chemically inert, and, because of the suction cup action of the cut cells, adhesive. These qualities make cork valuable for bottle stoppers, insulating materials, linoleum, and many household and industrial items.

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Fifty Years of Botany: Golden Jubilee Volume of the Botanical Society of America
Book by William Campbell Steere; McGraw-Hill, 1958
Subjects: Botany
...stems is successively sloughed off by the formation of cork by cork cambia. Again in contrast to the conducting cells in...Review and by Esau and others in the American Journal of Botany are especially worth reading. Another aspect of the literature...
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Economic Botany: A Textbook of Useful Plants and Plant Products
Book by Albert F. Hill; McGraw-Hill, 1952
Subjects: Botany, Economic
Uses of Cork Cork is used for many purposes and for the manufacture of a great variety of products. In some cases the natural cork is utilized; in others composition cork, made of coarse or finely ground...
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The Green Earth: An Invitation to Botany
Book by Harold William Rickett; Jacques Cattell Press, 1943
Subjects: Botany
...were a single layer. Much of its bulk is formed of cork, and is in truth dead. The cork is much the same, chemically, as that material...containing air instead of protoplasm. The fine grades of cork, uniform in consistency and sufficiently resilient...
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Vistas in Botany
Book by W. B Turrill; Pergamon, 1959
Subjects: Botany
...stem or a root, if they develop at all. But in other cases we can induce mature cells to divide, either by mechanical or by chemical means. Cutting a potato tuber will cause the cells near the cut surface to divide and to form a cork layer,
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A Short History of the Plant Sciences
Book by Howard S. Reed; Chronica Botanica, 1942
Subjects: Botany--History
...When one considers the state of botany as RAY left it and compares...charcoal, which he compared with cork and other tissues. He found that the cork was "all perforated and porous...became strangely interested in cork and reached the conclusion that...
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"I Never Yet Parted": Bernard Mcmahon and the Seeds of the Corps of Discovery
Journal article by Robert S. Cox; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 94, 2004
Subjects: American Philosophical Society, American history, Botany, Clark, William (1770-1838), Expeditions, Explorers, Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809), McMahon, Bernard
...Bartrams Travels, William Woodvilles Medical Botany, and all fourteen volumes of William Marshalls...hedges, licorice, rhubarb, sea kale, cork, mulberry, and silk worms. The most...Barton, slow and acerbic but expert in botany. In May 1810, Barton was asked to prepare...
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Criminal Transport: George Barrington and the Colonial Cure
Journal article by Toby R. Benis; Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 20, 2002
Subjects: Australian literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Authors, Australian--Works, Barrington, George--Works, Crime--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Criminals--History, Travel--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...wildly successful Voyage to Botany Bay, an account probably edited...Later in the decade A Voyage to Botany Bay Part II, as well as a History...London, Manchester, Dublin, Cork, Paris, New York, and Philadelphia...Critics concerned with A Voyage to Botany Bay have tended to focus either...
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"The Science Ball": Poetry as Historical Evidence (1)
Journal article by Christine Lei; Historical Studies, Vol. 70, 2004
Subjects: Canadian poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Catholic schools--Curricula, Catholic schools--History, Science education--History, Sciences education--History, The Science Ball (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Women in science--History
...Street in Toronto, including astronomy, botany, natural history, use of globes, natural...science, comprised of natural history (botany, zoology, and physiology) and natural...32) H.B. Spotton, High School Botany (Toronto: W.J. Gage and Company...
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Atlanta: NABT Professional Development Conference: November 28-December 1, 2007: The Atlanta Hyatt Regency * Atlanta, Georgia
Journal article; The American Biology Teacher, Vol. 69, 2007
Subjects: Conferences and conventions--Calendars, National Association of Biology Teachers--Conferences, meetings and seminars
...Skills <br/ Why the Y? <br/ Botany Microbiology <br/ Teaching...Sciences Teachers? <br/ Bring Botany Alive with Student-Centered...Perfect SolutionR Specimens <br/ Cork to Mitochondria: Vertical Activities...Inquiry-based Instruction in Botany to Enhance Student Learning...
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Fated Marginalization: Women and Science in the Poetry of Constance Naden
Journal article by Patricia Murphy; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 40, 2002
Subjects: English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Naden, Constance--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Science in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women in science--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Women poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...of the sciences of physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, and geology," even winning...p. xxviii). (13.) "Lament of the Cork-Cell" is the only Naden poem featuring...cycle from vibrant organism to deadened cork, describing the chemical and physiological...
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Secrets of Bark
Magazine article by Dwight G. Smith; World and I, Vol. 19, March 2004
Subjects: Bark (Botany)--Natural history, Bark (Botany)--Usage, Bark--Natural history, Bark--Usage
...of dead tissue called the outer bark or cork. In the early stages of a plants growth...bark, and a fresh layer of cells, the cork cambium, is formed between the inner and outer bark. New cells produced by the cork cambium become part of the rough, outer...
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The Fate of the Rebels after 1798
Magazine article by Michael Durey; History Today, Vol. 48, June 1998
Subjects: Irish question--History, Northern Ireland--History, Political prisoners--United Kingdom
...Dublin until the sailing to Botany Bay of the convict ship Atlas...establishment at Cove (Cobh) in Cork, became the main termini for...sentenced to transportation to Botany Bay. Although the conviction...of transporting convicts to Botany Bay had been available for two...
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When the Living Is Easy
Magazine article by Jan Morris; New Statesman, Vol. 130, August 20, 2001
Subjects: Gray, John--Personal narratives, Greer, Bonnie--Personal narratives, Hughes, Karen--Personal narratives, Morris, Jan--Personal narratives, Oxford, England--Personal narratives, Summer--Personal narratives, Sydney, Australia--Personal narratives, Tuscany, Italy--Description and travel
...Bay of Spezia, New York and the Cove of Cork are all picturesquely fine. Bantry Bay...that anyone settle in Sydney Cove. It was Botany Bay, five miles to the south, that he...but Governor Phillip took one look at Botany Bay and declared it impossible. Within...
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A Proud and Noble Tragedy: the Sinking of the Birkenhead
Magazine article by Frank H. Shaw; Sea Classics, Vol. 34, October 2001
...from that of the felons sent to Botany Bay in the BIRKENHEADs generation...voyages, she was ordered to Cork to embark reinforcements and...command of Sir Harry Smith. At Cork she took on board drafts from...74th Highlanders, she left Cork on 2 January 1852, with Cape...


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Revealed after 209 Years, the Diary of a Bloody Mutiny; Dramatic Log from an Irish Convict Ship Is Expected to Fetch [pounds Sterling
Newspaper article; August 10, 2004
...the 654-ton Marquis Cornwallis, which set sail from Cork to Botany Bay with 244 Irish prisoners including 70 women on August...cleared. Of the male prisoners, most served sentences in Botany Bay before being given the choice of freedom in Australia...
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Lee Strikes It Lucky; Flashy: Golf Great Lee Trevino Kisses the Open Trophy in 1972
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 11, 2008
...particular association with Cork city. From the late 17thcentury...the 1830s, beef-curing was Corks most lucrative industry and...beefcured in and exported from Cork. Niall OSullivan, Cork. QUESTION At a crossroads on...right to reach the aptly named Botany Bay Farmnearby, where they...
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By the Way. What Makes a Good Doctor?
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 22, 2010
...guest speaker at the Uuiversity College Cork summer conferrings. I felt especially...me. My career was summed up by a man in Cork Airport recently who turned to me and said...you how flowers had sex, thanks to my botany lectures. What I didnt learn was how to...
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Play without Actors, Stage or Audience; PREVIEW: Susurrus, Margam Park, Port Talbot
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), June 30, 2011
Subjects: Actors, Actresses, Drama, Parks--United Kingdom, Plays
...The listener hears snippets about opera, memorial benches and botany that fit together into a mournful and poignant story of love...shown in London, Amsterdam, Milan, Boston, Buenos Aires, Cork and Delhi. Recent prizes include the Edinburgh International...
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The Ugg Inventor Who Gave [Euro]600m the Boot; (He Sold the Idea for [Euro]12,000 and Three Free Pairs a Year!)
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 15, 2011
Subjects: Jimmy Choo
...the likes of Dublins Grafton Street and St Patricks Street in Cork regularly sell out, with Irish women quite happy to fork out...keep up with the orders. Stedman moved to a manufacturer in Botany Bay. Production shot up from 20 or 30 a week to 300. But it...
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Cork , in Botany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CORK , in botany protective, waterproof outer covering of the stems and roots of woody plants. Cork is a specialized secondary tissue produced by the cork cambium of the plant (see meristem , bark ). The regularly...
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Bark , in Botany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BARK , in botany outer covering of the stem...plants, composed of waterproof cork cells protecting a layer of...outer bark of inelastic dead cork cells gives way in patterns...reproductive cells called the cork cambium produces new cork cells...


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