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  2. Tecoma stans - Wikipedia

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    The wood of Tecoma stans is used in rustic architecture like bahareque, for the construction of furniture and canoes, or as firewood or charcoal. It is a medicinal plant used against diabetes and against diseases of the digestive system, among other uses. The plant is desirable fodder when it grows in fields grazed by livestock.

  3. Coscinium fenestratum - Wikipedia

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    Coscinium fenestratum, or yellow vine as it is sometimes referred to in English, is a flowering woody climber, native to South Asia and Mainland Southeast Asia. It is rare and critically endangered in many of its habitats. Coscinium fenestratum is a member of the family Menispermaceae and the genus Coscinium.

  4. Quillaja saponaria - Wikipedia

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    The wood is used in cabinetry, and scents derived from the tree are used in perfumes and cosmetics. The inner bark of Quillaja saponaria can be reduced to powder and employed as a substitute for soap, since it forms a lather with water, owing to the presence of a glycoside saponin, sometimes distinguished as quillaia saponin.

  5. Biodegradable waste - Wikipedia

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    Transforming food waste to either food products, feed products, or converting it to or extracting food or feed ingredients is termed as food waste valorisation. Valorisation of food waste offers an economical and environmental opportunity, which can reduce the problems of its conventional disposal.

  6. Yellow bell - Wikipedia

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    Yellow bell is a common name for several plants with yellow flowers and may refer to: Allamanda, genus of flowering plants in the dogbane family; Fritillaria pudica, species of flowering sagebrush; Tecoma stans, species of flowering perennial shrub in the trumpet vine family

  7. Reuse of human excreta - Wikipedia

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    The nitrogen content in urine is proportional to the total food protein in the person's diet, and the phosphorus content is proportional to the sum of total food protein and vegetal food protein. [ 17 ] : 5 Urine's eight main ionic species (> 0.1 meq L−1) are cations Na , K , NH 4 , Ca , and the anions , Cl , SO 4 , PO 4 , and HCO 3 . [ 18 ]

  8. Quillaia - Wikipedia

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    Quillaia is used in the manufacture of food additives. [1] The extract also is used as a humectant in baked goods, frozen dairy products, and puddings and as a foaming agent in soft drinks . [ 1 ] It is used in agriculture for some "natural" spray adjuvant formulations.

  9. Extract - Wikipedia

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    Maceration, as used to soften and degrade material without heat, normally using oils, such as for peppermint extract and wine making. Distillation or separation process , creating a higher concentration of the extract by heating material to a specific boiling point, then collecting this and condensing the extract, leaving the unwanted material ...