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  2. Vanilla - Wikipedia

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    Vanilla planifolia, flower Dried vanilla beans. Vanilla is a spice derived from orchids of the genus Vanilla, primarily obtained from pods of the flat-leaved vanilla (V. planifolia). [1] Vanilla is not autogamous, so pollination is required to make the plants produce the fruit from which the vanilla spice is obtained. [2]

  3. Spice - Wikipedia

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    For example, vanilla is commonly used as an ingredient in fragrance manufacturing. [2] Plant-based sweeteners such as sugar are not considered spices. Spices can be used in various forms, including fresh, whole, dried, grated, chopped, crushed, ground, or extracted into a tincture.

  4. List of Mexican inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Vanilla: the Totonac are believed to had been the first to extract vanilla from the pods of vanilla orchids and use it as a flavor enhancer. [13] Cotton; Sisal production invented by the Maya. Tobacco; Bottle gourds – the ancient Mexicans learned to first cultivate bottle gourds around 8,000 BCE. Indigenous peoples grew bottle gourds for use ...

  5. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/December 2005 ...

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    You need an account for those dishes, so I doubt you will pick up much free programming. Dominick (TALK) 19:08, 1 December 2005 (UTC) It'd make a tremendous parabolic microphone. –Mysid 10:51, 2 December 2005 (UTC) Snowboard! smurrayinchester , 12:51, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

  6. Polyethylene glycol - Wikipedia

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    Polyethylene glycol (PEG; / ˌ p ɒ l i ˈ ɛ θ əl ˌ iː n ˈ ɡ l aɪ ˌ k ɒ l,-ˈ ɛ θ ɪ l-,-ˌ k ɔː l /) is a polyether compound derived from petroleum with many applications, from industrial manufacturing to medicine.

  7. Food grading - Wikipedia

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    A more accurate method of discerning the degree of roast involves measuring the reflected light from roasted seeds illuminated with a light source in the near infrared spectrum. This elaborate light meter uses a process known as spectroscopy to return a number that consistently indicates the roasted coffee's relative degree of roast or flavor ...

  8. Wikipedia : Recent additions/2013/June

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    This is a record of material that was recently featured on the Main Page as part of Did you know (DYK). Recently created new articles, greatly expanded former stub articles and recently promoted good articles are eligible; you can submit them for consideration.

  9. Futures contract - Wikipedia

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    Here, the forward price represents the expected future value of the underlying discounted at the risk-free rate—as any deviation from the theoretical price will afford investors a riskless profit opportunity and should be arbitraged away. We define the forward price to be the strike K such that the contract has 0 value at the present time.