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  2. Naval stores industry - Wikipedia

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    With the demise of wooden ships, those uses of pine resin ended, but the former naval stores industry remained vigorous as new products created new markets. First extensively described by Frederick Law Olmsted in his book A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States (1856), [3] the naval stores industry was one of the economic mainstays of the southeastern United States until the late 20th century.

  3. Naval stores - Wikipedia

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    Pine trees especially in North Carolina were tapped for sap which was doubly distilled to make turpentine and rosin (aka resin)–hence the name tar heels. The trees were scored with a ledge called a “box” to collect the sap. Large numbers of slaves were used to score the trees, collect and process the sap. Zallen describes this as ...

  4. Pitch (resin) - Wikipedia

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    Pitch produced from petroleum may be called bitumen or asphalt, while plant-derived pitch, a resin, is known as rosin in its solid form. Tar is sometimes used interchangeably with pitch, but generally refers to a more liquid substance derived from coal production, including coal tar, or from plants, as in pine tar. [2]

  5. List of inventoried hardwoods in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Resins from sap yield wood tar, turpentine or other terpenes. Some resins and other tree products contain dangerous toxins (not generally listed below). Much of the economic value of trees comes from orchards and ornamental uses. [7]

  6. Superabsorbent polymer - Wikipedia

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    Superabsorbent polymers are now commonly made from the polymerization of acrylic acid blended with sodium hydroxide in the presence of an initiator to form a poly-acrylic acid sodium salt (sometimes referred to as sodium polyacrylate). This polymer is the most common type of SAP made in the world today.

  7. Oakum - Wikipedia

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    In plumbing and marine applications, the fibers are impregnated with tar or a tar-like substance, traditionally pine tar (also called "Stockholm tar"), an amber-coloured pitch made from pine sap. Tar-like petroleum by-products can also be used for modern oakum. "White oakum" is made from untarred material, [1] and was chiefly used as packing ...

  8. 'Fly 1,500 miles home with me to vote': These Americans are ...

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    “Fly 1,500 miles home with me to vote,” Kayla Iutzwig says in a TikTok video showing her packing a suitcase and heading to the airport. The 21-year-old lives in Los Angeles but is registered ...

  9. Resin extraction - Wikipedia

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    Resin is usually collected by causing minor damage to the tree by making a hole far enough into the trunk to puncture the vacuoles, to let sap exit the tree, known as tapping, and then letting the tree repair its damage by filling the wound with resin. This usually takes a few days. Then, excess resin is collected.

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