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The fresh juice supplying 30 percent potassium and the mucilage a good amount of niter and sodium.
This is probably owing principally to the mucilage contained in the bran, which runs into the acetous fermentation sooner than starch.
Dietary fibre consists of plant material such as cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin, polysaccharides, gums, mucilage and lignin.
This folk remedy has not been well studied, but it appears to work because it contains mucilage, sugar molecules that soothe inflamed membranes.
With HotKeys, you can pretty much keep on working even if a fun-loving but unscrupulous co-worker puts mucilage in your mouse.
They say that things are on the way out when you produce volumes of clear mucilage.
The root cap covers the root tip and secrets mucilage which facilitates the movement of the growing roots in the soil.
Some of the latter are idioblastic and enclose raphides, whereas others are larger and form cavities containing mucilage.
A similar pattern of schizogenous mucilage has also been reported for Hibiscus schizopetalus.
The procedure was repeated several times in order to remove the large amount of mucilage present in jute bark.
Sassafras leaves contain not only sassafras flavour but also a gummy mucilage.
These cells disperse into mucilage, which can attract or repel certain microorganisms within the immediate surroundings of the root.
The mucilage from the bark of this American elm has wonderfully strengthening and healing qualities.
Through the raphe, the living diatom secretes mucilage, with which it may attach to a substrate or move by gliding over the substrate.
The mucilage sap of narcissi can adversely affect other flowers by clogging their water-uptake channels.
The name originally applied to a mucilage extracted from a red seaweed of the genus Eucheuma.
You have to be of a certain age to remember when every household had one or more bottles of mucilage to stick stamps to envelopes.
Coltsfoot combines an expectorant action with a soothing, healing quality thought to be due to its high mucilage content.
The fermentation process can be replaced by a mechanical demucilaging system to remove the mucilage by friction.
They contain minerals and mucilage, among which alginates used in the food industry as thicknening and gelling agents.
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The mucilage forms itself almost at the same time as the paraphyses, and previous to the formation of the asci.
He wondered how he could ever have cared for this molasses and mucilage girl.
The mucilage is also one of the substances used by hair-dressers under the name of bandoline.
When freshly expressed, it is turbid, owing to the presence of mucilage and extractive matter.
I have also experimented with a mucilage produced by a fucus, a kind of sea-weed, which promises future success.
All the Malvace abound in mucilage, and they all have woody fibre in their stems.
But when they took to dipping them in mucilage he made a complaint to the Board of Directors.
Colonies of nostoc are constantly found living in some of the mucilage slits which then become enlarged.
The asci are always present, the paraphyses are sometimes rare, and the mucilage in many cases seems to be entirely wanting.
It had been stuck there by a drop of mucilage, and the mucilage was still wet.
Dr. Phin says that dextrine mixed with water makes a good label mucilage if a drop or two of glycerine be added to it.
Under the dribble of the mucilage the fire in his eyes had flickered and sunk.
Take half a fluid ounce of the two in five gum mucilage, to which add the same quantity of water and thoroughly mix.
To effect this object the mucilage should be thick, and the tracing paper should be dampened with a sponge after it is pasted.
It had been well rubbed in, too, made of a plastic adherence by the addition of mucilage.
Put a little of the mucilage from slippery elm in a teaspoon.
It is only partially soluble in water, forming a viscid mucilage.
The cycadaceous family yields much starchy matter, along with mucilage.
The binder may be either glue or mucilage mixed with the water.
Sue says she believes it's mucilage, and I think she's right.
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