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  2. Rainmaking - Wikipedia

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    The video of the song "Cloudbusting" (based on the story of Wilhelm Reich) by Kate Bush features Donald Sutherland as an inventor of a rainmaking machine. [4] The 1956 film The Rainmaker tells of a traveling salesman/con artist who claims to be a rainmaker. (A country song, Lizzie and the Rainman, would be based on the film.)

  3. Saponification - Wikipedia

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    Some soap-makers leave the glycerol in the soap. Others precipitate the soap by salting it out with sodium chloride. Skeletal formula of stearin, a triglyceride that is converted by saponification with sodium hydroxide into glycerol and sodium stearate. Fat in a corpse converts into adipocere, often called "grave wax".

  4. Sodium hydroxide - Wikipedia

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    Sodium hydroxide was first prepared by soap makers. [53]: p45 A procedure for making sodium hydroxide appeared as part of a recipe for making soap in an Arab book of the late 13th century: Al-mukhtara' fi funun min al-suna' (Inventions from the Various Industrial Arts), which was compiled by al-Muzaffar Yusuf ibn 'Umar ibn 'Ali ibn Rasul (d ...

  5. Soap - Wikipedia

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    A handmade soap bar Two equivalent images of the chemical structure of sodium stearate, a typical ingredient found in bar soaps Emulsifying action of soap on oil. Soap is a salt of a fatty acid (sometimes other carboxylic acids) used for cleaning and lubricating products as well as other applications. [1]

  6. Chymopapain - Wikipedia

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    [17] [18] The most common procedure is the one described by Baines & Brocklehurst in 1979. [19] In order to obtain the protein, Carica Papaya fruits are used, as chymopapain is found in its latex. The papayas should be just in the previous step before maturation, which implies an average diameter of 6–10 cm. [20] Chymopapain extraction and ...

  7. Cocamidopropyl betaine - Wikipedia

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    Cocamidopropyl betaine is used as a foam booster in shampoos. [4] It is a medium-strength surfactant also used in bath products like hand soaps.It is also used in cosmetics as an emulsifying agent and thickener, and to reduce the irritation that purely ionic surfactants would cause.

  8. List of countries by papaya production - Wikipedia

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    Countries by papaya production in 2020. This is a list of countries by papaya production from 2017 to 2022, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. [1] The estimated total world production for papayas in 2022 was 13,822,328 metric tonnes, down by 1.9% from 14,086,181 tonnes in 2021. [1]

  9. Hard soap - Wikipedia

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    Using soap helps dissolve many water-insoluble substances, like fats and oils, making them washable with water. In most cases, hard soaps or products based on them are used for handwashing because they exhibit an alkaline ( pH value above 7) nature and can irritate the skin when in contact with mucous membranes.