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  2. Tanning agent - Wikipedia

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    A tanning agent is used for: Leather tanning, the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather; Sunless tanning, the effect of a suntan without ...

  3. Graveyard Keeper - Wikipedia

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    Graveyard Keeper is a graveyard-themed management simulation video game developed by independent Russian indie game studio Lazy Bear Games and published by tinyBuild. The game's alpha version was released for Microsoft Windows in May 2018, [ 1 ] followed by the regular release for Windows and Xbox One later that year. [ 2 ]

  4. Lawsone - Wikipedia

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    Lawsone strongly absorbs UV light, and aqueous extracts can be effective sunless tanning agents and sunscreens. Lawsone is a 1,4-naphthoquinone derivative, an analog of hydroxyquinone containing one additional ring. Lawsone isolation from Lawsonia inermis can be difficult due to its easily biodegradable nature. Isolation involves four steps:

  5. Tanning (leather) - Wikipedia

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    Tanning, or hide tanning, is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather. A tannery is the place where the skins are processed. Historically, vegetable based tanning used tannin, an acidic chemical compound derived from the bark of certain trees, in the production of leather. An alternative method, developed in the ...

  6. Bating (leather) - Wikipedia

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    A tanner treating leather in Morocco. Bating is a technical term used in the tanning industry to denote leather that has been treated with hen or pigeon manure, similar to puering (see puer) where the leather has been treated with dog excrement, and which treatment, in both cases, was performed on the raw hide prior to tanning in order to render the skins, and the subsequent leather, soft and ...

  7. Tannin - Wikipedia

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    Tannins are an important ingredient in the process of tanning leather. Tanbark from oak, mimosa, chestnut and quebracho tree has traditionally been the primary source of tannery tannin, though inorganic tanning agents are also in use today and account for 90% of the world's leather production. [71]

  8. Sunless tanning - Wikipedia

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    1960s advertisement for tanning lotion. Sunless tanning, also known as UV filled tanning, self tanning, spray tanning (when applied topically), or fake tanning, refers to the effect of a suntan without exposure to the Sun. Sunless tanning involves the use of oral agents (carotenids), or creams, lotions or sprays applied to the skin. [1]

  9. Tanning activator - Wikipedia

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    The tanning activator coumarin is known to induce thymine dimers (cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers). [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Other Web sites state correctly that: "Coumarins produce photosensitivity therefore advise the patient to avoid direct sunlight after treatment.