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Browse Results: W

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W

Chemical symbol for the element tungsten....view more

wad

An old, unstandardized name for natural black minerals that has been applied to graphite, manganese black, and black iron oxide....view more

wad clay

A piece of rolled clay used for coiling, modeling, or to level shelves in a kiln....view more

waferboard

A type of layered particle board made wood wafers bonded together with a waterproof phenolic resin....view more

waifa

A yellow-green dye developed from the flower buds of the Japanese pagoda tree, Sophora japonica, native to Japan, China and India....view more

wainscot color

An 18th century term for a yellow-brown paint composed of lead white and umber (Bucher 1996)....view more

Wakeman Buff sandstone

A fine-grain, pale buff color sandstone quarried near Wakeman in Lorain County, Ohio (Lent 1925)....view more

wallboard

Any rigid sheet of material used for covering interior walls and ceilings....view more

Waller stone

A fine-grain, buff and blue sandstone quarried in Scioto County, Ohio....view more

walling wax

A raised border of wax around the edges of an etching plate....view more

wallpaper

A decorative paper used to cover interior walls and ceilings....view more

wallpaper paste

An adhesive paste used to adhere wallpaper to walls....view more

walnut

Strong, valuable, hardwood trees of the genus Juglans native to the temperate climates of the northern hemisphere....view more

walnut oil

A natural, colorless drying oil pressed from the nuts of a walnut tree, Juglans regia....view more

walnut shell

A powder made from ground walnut shell refuse....view more

walrus leather

Leather produced from any fur bearing swimming mammal such as the Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus), Pacific walrus (Odobenus abesus), sea lion (Zalophus caliifornianus) or seal (Callorhinus alascanus)....view more

walrus tusk

Long, upper canine teeth of the Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus), and the Pacific walrus (Odobenus obesus)....view more

warfarin

A toxic anticoagulant used in commercial baits to kill rodents....view more

Warm white fluorescent lamp

[General Electric] A trademark for a high efficiency fluorescent lamp with a color temperature of 2700-3000 K....view more

warning indicia

A visual indicator that appears when safety paper has been tampered....view more


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