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Sheep dipping is the immersion of sheep in water containing insecticides and fungicide. The world's first sheep dip was invented and produced by George Wilson of Coldstream, Scotland, in 1830. That dip was based on arsenic powder and was exported by package steamer from nearby Berwick-upon-Tweed. [1]
A pounce pot (or sprinkler) at the London Science Museum. Pounce [a] or sand [b] is a fine powder, most often made from powdered cuttlefish bone or sandarac resin, that was used both to dry ink and to sprinkle on a rough writing surface to make it smooth enough for writing.
A plunge dip (also known as a dipping vat, dipping tank or, simply, a dip) is a bath designed to immerse livestock in liquid pesticide or other treatment. Design
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Grave of William Cooper in Berkhamsted Coopers sheep dip advert 1871. William Cooper (26 December 1813 – 20 May 1885) was a British veterinary surgeon, agriculturalist and industrialist who specialised in the manufacture of agricultural insecticides for livestock. He is credited with developing the first successful sheep dip, Cooper's Dip, in ...
The technical distinction between a pond and a lake has not been universally standardized. Limnologists and freshwater biologists have proposed formal definitions for pond, in part to include 'bodies of water where light penetrates to the bottom of the waterbody', 'bodies of water shallow enough for rooted water plants to grow throughout', and 'bodies of water which lack wave action on the ...
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