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Ichor originates in Greek mythology, where it is the "ethereal fluid" that is the blood of the Greek gods, sometimes said to retain the qualities of the immortals' food and drink, ambrosia and nectar. [2] Ichor is described as toxic to humans, killing them instantly if they came in contact with it.
References to elephants in musth (whose temporin secretion is often referred to as "ichor") are for example in the Raghuvaṃśa (4th–5th century CE), wher Kalidasa wrote that the king's elephants drip ichor in seven streams to match the scent put forth by the seven-leaved 'sapta-cchada' (= "seven-leaf") tree (perhaps Alstonia scholaris).
A brief note on the phenomenon by Thomas Lambe Phipson [] (1833–1908) appeared in The Chemical News on 17 April 1891 [2] and was re-published in its entirety, a month later, in The Scientific American, [3] in which he wrote, "This subject, with which I was occupied more than twenty-five years ago, appears from a paragraph in the last number of the Chemical News [2] to have recently attracted ...
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Ichor, a mineral that is the Greek gods' blood; Organization for Jewish Colonization in Russia (ICOR, IKOR) This page was last edited on 19 ...
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