WHITING, Powdery Substance

white, powdery substance, prepared by grinding chalk or some other source of calcium carbonate. When mixed with linseed oil it forms putty, and with water and several other substances it constitutes whitewash. It is used as a pigment, called Spanish white, as a filler in paints, for polishing metalware, and for various other purposes.

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Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD
Book by Lou Cannon; Westview Press, 1999
Subjects: African Americans--Civil Rights--California--Los Angeles--History--20th Century, King, Rodney, Los Angeles (Calif.)--Police Dept, Los Angeles (Calif.)--Politics And Government, Los Angeles (Calif.)--Race Relations, Racism--California--Los Angeles--History--20th Century, Riots--California--Los Angeles--History--20th Century
...revealing accounts of their deliberations. I am particularly indebted to jury forewoman Dorothy Bailey and juror Anna Charmaine Whiting in the state trial of the officers, to jury foreman Bob Almond and juror Maria Escobel in the federal trial, and to jury...
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English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases: A Historical Dictionary
Book by G. L. Apperson; J.M. Dent and Sons, 1929
Subjects: Proverbs, English
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Narratives of Exploration and Adventure
Book by John Charles Frémont, Allan Nevins; Longmans, Green, 1956
Subjects: United States--Exploring Expeditions, West (U.S.)--Description And Travel
...over his earliest years and saying nothing of his parentage, for he was of illegitimate birth. His mother, Anne Beverley Whiting, had married a citizen of Richmond, Virginia, Major John Pryor, who was old enough to be her father; childless and unhappy...
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Chambers's Technical Dictionary
Book by C. F. Tweney, L. E. C. Hughes; Macmillan, 1958
Subjects: Technology--Dictionaries
...for the specific optical rotation of a substance at t C., measured for the D line of...blacksmith. abradant Eng. . A substance, usually in powdered form, employed...development. abrasive Chem. . A substance used for the removal of matter by scratching...
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Dictionary of the Arts
Book by Martin L. Wolf; Philosophical Library, 1951
Subjects: Art--Dictionaries, Literature--Dictionaries, Music--Dictionaries, Theater--Dictionaries
...In fabrics , a class of coloring substances used for dyeing acetate rayon and...cellulose acetate. It is a slow-burning substance incapable of flash fire, and is often termed safety film . Acetone-- A substance used as a solvent for painters varnishes...
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'Same Time Poison, Same Time Good Tucker': The Cycad Palm in the South West Gulf of Carpentaria
Journal article by John J. Bradley; Journal of Australian Studies, 2006
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians--Social aspects, Australian aborigines--Social aspects, Cycadales--Health aspects, Cycadales--Nutritional aspects, Cycadales--Social aspects, Cycads--Health aspects, Cycads--Nutritional aspects, Cycads--Social aspects
...Lourandos, Elizabeth Mackinlay and Steven Johnson. Tony Roberts assisted with a number of hard-to-locate articles. (1) See M Whiting, Toxicity of Cycads, Economics Botany 17, 1963; John Mark Beaton, Investigations in the Late Prehistoric Occupation of Upland...


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Whiting , Powdery Substance
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WHITING , powdery substance white, powdery substance, prepared by grinding chalk or some other source of calcium...oil it forms putty , and with water and several other substances it constitutes whitewash . It is used as a pigment...


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