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• Bulletwood
  ...latex sap called gum [[balata]]. Balata gum is used in the manufacture of gold ball covers and rubber belts for machines.
  1 KB (178 words) - 08:35, 11 May 2022
• Tripoli
  ...Tennessee an Georgia. Tripoli is used as an abrasive for polishing glass, gold and jewelry. It is also used as a filtering media and as a filler in paints
  2 KB (233 words) - 15:35, 16 June 2022
• Tulip tree
  ...ys. The leaves of the tulip tree contain a [[dye|dye]] that gives a strong gold color with a chrome [[mordant|mordant]]. It has fair lightfastness. * Grain = fine.
  3 KB (392 words) - 14:03, 21 June 2022
• Platinum
  ...llic element. Platinum is found as fine grains of native ore in alluvial [[gold]] deposits and in [[nickel]] ores. It is often mixed with other platinum gr ...ut used by the Indians of Ecuador and Colombia who sintered the metal with gold"
  5 KB (705 words) - 09:28, 26 July 2022
• Chrysocolla
  ...one is sky-blue in its natural state, but appears green when ground into a fine powder; it can be unevenly colored and resemble turquoise. Chrysocolla has cedar green; copper silicate; gold solder; chryzokola (Pol.); crisocola (Port.); Chrysokoll (Deut.); chrysocol
  4 KB (514 words) - 11:26, 23 December 2022
• Kaolin
  ...s. Kaolin (as brick dust) has been used as an [[abrasive]] for polishing [[gold]] and other metals. It is also a useful [[absorbent]] for oils and greases
  4 KB (569 words) - 12:36, 15 September 2022

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