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  2. Calcium hydroxide - Wikipedia

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    Limewater is used in the preparation of maize for corn tortillas and other culinary purposes using a process known as nixtamalization. Nixtamalization makes the niacin nutritionally available and prevents pellagra. [16] Traditionally lime water was used in Taiwan and China to preserve persimmon and to remove astringency. [17]: 623

  3. Drug packaging - Wikipedia

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    Bottles are commonly used for liquid pharmaceuticals as well as formed tablets and capsules. Glass is most common for liquids because it is inert and has excellent barrier properties. Various types of plastic bottles are used both by drug producers as well as by pharmacists in a pharmacy.

  4. Embalming chemicals - Wikipedia

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    Dyes. Active dyes are used to restore the body's natural colouration and counterstain against conditions such as jaundice as well as to indicate distribution of arterial fluid. Inactive dyes are used by the manufacturer of the arterial fluid to give a pleasant color to the fluid in the bottle but do nothing for the appearance of the embalmed body.

  5. Lime softening - Wikipedia

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    Lime softening (also known as lime buttering, lime-soda treatment, or Clark's process) [1] is a type of water treatment used for water softening, which uses the addition of limewater (calcium hydroxide) to remove hardness (deposits of calcium and magnesium salts) by precipitation.

  6. Why are there cotton balls in pill bottles? - AOL

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    The cotton balls bring moisture into the bottle, which can damage the pills, so the National Library of Medicine actually recommends you take the cotton ball out. Related: Foods doctors won't eat ...

  7. Soda lime - Wikipedia

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    The formation of water by the reaction and the moisture from the respiration also act as a solvent for the reaction. Reactions in aqueous phase are generally faster than between a dry gas and a dry solid. Soda lime is commonly used in closed-circuit diving rebreathers and in the anesthesia breathing circuit in anesthesia systems. [8] [9]

  8. Talk:Limewater - Wikipedia

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    1 lime water in tortillas. 2 comments. 2 German wikipedia. 1 comment. 3 Wrong spelling. 2 comments. 4 Requested move. 4 comments. 5 Section Medicine cut (to here) 2 ...

  9. Dalby's Carminative - Wikipedia

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    Dalby's Carminative, leftmost bottle Dalby's Carminative was one of the two most widely used patent medicines given to babies and children at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries. Together with its rival, Godfrey's Cordial , they were known as "mother's friends" and were used (often against a doctor's advice) for everything ...