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Wax is used to verify that something such as a document is unopened, to verify the sender's identity (for example with a seal stamp or signet ring), and as decoration. Sealing wax can also be used to take impressions of other seals. Wax was used to seal letters close and later, from about the 16th century, envelopes.
Seal (emblem), applying a seal to a document for authentication; Sealing wax, a wax material of a seal which, after melting, hardens quickly; Duct sealing, the sealing of leaks in air ducts; Induction sealing, method of heating a metal disk to seal a cap or top on a container; Porosity sealing, the process of filling a porous substrate to make ...
The seals of the Nguyễn dynasty can refer to a collection of seals (印篆, Ấn triện or 印章, Ấn chương) specifically made for the emperors of the Nguyễn dynasty (chữ Hán: 寶璽朝阮 / 寶璽茹阮), who reigned over Vietnam between the years 1802 and 1945 (under French protectorates since 1883, as Annam and Tonkin), or to seals produced during this period in Vietnamese ...
The seal-making device is also referred to as the seal matrix or die; the imprint it creates as the seal impression (or, more rarely, the sealing). [1] If the impression is made purely as a relief resulting from the greater pressure on the paper where the high parts of the matrix touch, the seal is known as a dry seal ; in other cases ink or ...
A simple wax jack (Sheffield plate), c. 1740 [1] A wax jack (wax-jack, taper-jack [2]) is a device used to hold a taper of sealing wax intended to create sealings on documents. The wax jack was first introduced in 1700. [3] Before that time a simple taper was used in a loose ball. Despite the resemblance to a candle, they were not used for ...
Cosmoline could be found on military equipment in the Spanish–American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean and Vietnam Wars. [4] [5] Cosmoline conforms to MIL-SPEC (MIL-C-11796C, Class 3) for Preservative and Sealing Compounds. [6] Chemically, cosmoline is a homogeneous mixture of oily and waxy long-chain, non-polar hydrocarbons.
The dish's name is believed to have come from its clear, dumpling-like appearance, as the term bánh bột lọc Huế loosely translates to "clear flour cake." In Vietnamese, the word bánh can mean "cake" or "bread," but can also be used as a general term for foods that are made from any type of flour, the most common being rice or tapioca.
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