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Hygrocybe chlorophana is a species of agaric (gilled mushroom) in the family Hygrophoraceae.It has been given the recommended English name of golden waxcap in the UK. [1] The species has a largely north temperate distribution, occurring in grassland in Europe and in woodland in North America and northern Asia; it has also been reported from mountainous areas of southern Australia.
Hygrocybe flavescens, commonly known as the golden waxy cap, is a species of Hygrocybe described from Michigan. [1] It is considered nonpoisonous to humans. [2] The species can be found in various forests and woodlands. [3] The mushroom is yellow-orange. [3] Its cap ranges from 2.5 to 6 cm wide, and can be more orange in youth. [3]
Blue Amberol Records was the trademark name for cylinder records manufactured by Thomas A. Edison, Inc. in the US from 1912 to 1929. They replaced the 4-minute black wax Amberol cylinders introduced in 1908, which had replaced the 2-minute wax cylinders that had been the standard format since the late 1880s.
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The wax encaustic painting technique was described by the Roman scholar Pliny the Elder in his Natural History from the 1st Century AD. [5] The oldest surviving encaustic panel paintings are the Romano-Egyptian Fayum mummy portraits from Egypt , around 100–300 AD, [ 6 ] but it was a very common technique in ancient Greek and Roman painting.
Ligustrum japonicum, known as wax-leaf privet [1] or Japanese privet (Japanese: ネズミモチ) is a species of Ligustrum (privet) native to central and southern Japan (Honshū, Shikoku, Kyūshū, Okinawa) and Korea. [2] It is widely cultivated in other regions, and is naturalized in California and in the southeastern United States from Texas ...
Drain ducts are left for the wax, which melts away when the clay is cooked. The wax is then replaced by the molten metal, often using brass scrap as basic raw material. The liquid metal poured in hardens between the core and the inner surface of the mould. The metal fills the mould and takes the same shape as the wax.
Benzoin, known as kemenyan, from Gombong, Central Java Benzoin street vendor in Tapanoeli Residency, North Sumatra. Benzoin / ˈ b ɛ n z oʊ. ɪ n / or benjamin (corrupted pronunciation) [1] is a balsamic resin obtained from the bark of several species of trees in the genus Styrax.