QUEBRACHO

kābräˈchō, name for a tanning substance and for the trees from which it comes, chiefly the red quebracho, or quebracho colorado (Schinopsis lorentzii), of the family Anacardiaceae (sumac family). This hardwood tree, native to the Paraguayan subtropics, supplies one of the most durable and heavy of timbers. It has been used as a source of tanning material for nearly 100 years but has been widely used only in the 20th cent.; today it provides much of the vegetable tannin for the leather industry although the populations are being depleted. The heartwood, stripped of its bark and subjected to extraction processes, is about 30% tannin. Quebracho is obtained chiefly from wild trees of the forests of the Gran Chaco of Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia. White quebracho (Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco) of the dogbane family is one of the other hardwoods similarly used and is native to the same region. Red quebracho is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Sapindales, family Anacardiaceae.

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books on: Quebracho  - 155 results

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Plants and Plant Science in Latin America
Book by Frans Verdoorn; Chronica Botanica, 1945
Subjects: Botany--Latin America, Botany--South America
...produccion. La especie arborea mas utilizada es el quebracho blanco, Aspidosperma quebracho blanco siguiendole el algarrobo, negro Prosopis...andubay P. algarrobilla var. handubay , quebracho santiague o Schinopsis lorentzii , mistol Zizyphus...
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A World Geography of Forest Resources
Book by Stephen Haden-Guest, John K. Wright, Eileen M. Teclaff; Ronald Press, 1956
Subjects: Forests And Forestry
...UTILITY WOODS: Parana Pine, Urunday, Quebracho Blanco, Peroba, Lapacho, Ipe, Louro...Muirauba, Cedro Rana. TANNIN WOODS: Quebracho, Mangrove, Cebil, Barbatimo. EDIBLE...In this Chaco section of Paraguay, quebracho is much the most important tree. Formerly...
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The Argentine Republic: Its Development and Progress
Book by Pierre Denis, Joseph McCabe; Charles Scribners Sons, 1922
Subjects: Agriculture--Argentina, Argentina--Description And Travel, Argentina--Economic Conditions--1918-
...and their market. The variety of red quebracho which is exploited in the west is not...east. Each has a name of its own -- quebracho santiagueno and quebraco chaqueno . The...lena . The trunks of exceptionally large quebracho provide logs that are sold by cubic measurement...
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The Company Town: Architecture and Society in the Early Industrial Age
Book by John S. Garner; Oxford University Press, 1992
Subjects: Company Town Architecture--History--19th Century
...lumber camps, which were situated in the quebracho forests, picadas , or permanent storage...well-organized company towns where quebracho was processed, and the ports from which...trunks from the forests to the picadas. Quebracho Fusionados was founded in 1906; its...
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Pan American Economics
Book by Paul R. Olson, C. Addison Hickman; John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1943
Subjects: Latin America--Commerce, Latin America--Economic Conditions--1918-
...States use a substantial portion of quebracho. Argentina and Paraguay account for almost all the world production of quebracho trees, and preparation of the extract...Only a small proportion of the quebracho extract produced in those countries...
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Trust, Distrust, and Antitrust
Journal article by Christopher R. Leslie; Texas Law Review, Vol. 82, 2004
Subjects: Antitrust laws, Cartels, Game theory, United States
...arrangements. Major cartel efforts of this era include those in rubber, tin, aluminum, steel, sugar, copper, electric lamps, quebracho, bromine, sulfur, potash, nitrate, dyestuffs, potassium, carpeting, camphor, explosives, wool, industrial alcohol...


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magazine articles on: Quebracho  - 5 results

 
 
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A Chaco Wordsmith Rises to Risks
Magazine article by Caleb Bach; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 58, January 2006
Subjects: Argentine literature, Argentine writers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Argentine writers--Interviews, Argentine writers--Political activity, Authors, Argentine--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Authors, Argentine--Interviews, Authors, Argentine--Political activity, Giardinelli, Mempo--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Giardinelli, Mempo--Interviews, Giardinelli, Mempo--Political activity, Literary techniques
...oppressive heat, frequent droughts, torrential rains, and flooding. Locals say that life there is as hard as the famous quebracho, or ax-breaker wood native to the region. Even in Resistencia, the provincial capital, which sits at the confluence...
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Brazil
Magazine article by Brian J. Godfrey; Focus, Vol. 45, Summer 1999
Subjects: Brazil--Description and travel
...resistant plants in the arid uplands. The Pantanal also features many kinds of grasses, palms, and other trees, including the quebracho tree from which, just as in Paraguay and Argentina, tannin is extracted for use in the leather industry. Herds of livestock...
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The Making of a Saint
Magazine article by Caleb Bach; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 42, March 1990
Subjects: Art museums--Paraguay, Paraguay--Art, Wood-carved figurines--Paraguay, Wood-carving--Paraguay
...major commissions, especially altar figures for churches throughout the country. From tropical hardwoods like palo santo and quebracho, he also carves carefully finished, unpainted figures of Don Quijote and Sancho Panza, or chess sets representing the opposing...
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Third Tehran International Film Festival
Magazine article by Herb A. Lightman; American Cinematographer, Vol. 56, February 1975
...Canada), "25, Firemans Street" (Hungary), "Mahler" (United Kingdom), "The Pedestrian" (Germany F.R.), "Quebracho" (Argentina), "Cousin Angelica" (Spain), "The Voyage" (Italy), "Lancelot du Lac" (France), "Celine et...
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The Last of Their Kind
Magazine article by Jim Motavalli, Jennifer Bogo; E, Vol. 10, May 1999
Subjects: Endangered species--Analysis
...to catch valuable parrots is to cut down their nesting trees, which in Argentina alone accounted for the loss of 100,000 quebracho trees in the 1980s. Although habitat destruction is probably the major factor pushing endangered species into extinction...


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encyclopedia articles on: Quebracho  - 7 results

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Quebracho
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
QUEBRACHO kabra cho, name for a tanning substance and for the trees from which it comes, chiefly the red quebracho, or quebracho colorado ( Schinopsis lorentzii ), of the family Anacardiaceae...
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Gran Chaco
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...stretches of dense forest in which the quebracho tree abounds. Tannin extraction from the quebracho is an important economic activity there...has much the same aspect. Cotton and quebracho are important there. The plains grow increasingly...
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Dogbane
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Hodgkins disease were discovered in the Madagascar periwinkle, Catharanthus roseus. Quebracho is obtained from Aspidosperma quebracho blanco, the white quebracho; latex for rubber was extracted from some tropical genera, e.g., Landolphia...
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Paraguay , Country, South America
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...part of the Chaco (see Gran Chaco ). Cattle are raised and quebracho is found in the woodlands of the Chaco Boreal. All the important...petitgrain, used in perfumes and flavorings. In addition to quebracho, hardwoods and cedars are commercially exploited. Meatpacking...
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Argentina
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and marshlands remain for long periods during the year because of poor drainage. Livestock, cotton, and wood from the quebracho tree are the main products. South of the Gran Chaco is the Pampa, a vast, monotonous natural grassland that extends to...
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