kauri resin

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noun

a hard resin obtained from the bark of the kauri or found, sometimes in masses of as much as 100 pounds (45 kilograms), in the soil where the tree has grown: used chiefly in making varnish.

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Also kauri, kauri gum, kauri copal.

Origin of kauri resin

First recorded in 1855–60

Words nearby kauri resin

kaupapa, Kaur, Kauravas, kauri, kauri gum, kauri resin, kauru, kaury, Kautsky, kava, Kavafis

How to use kauri resin in a sentence

Named after the Maori forest god, the largest living kauri has stretched to 167 feet in height in its 1200-plus years.
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Dominic Ware has a scorpion encased in resin on a string around his neck.
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The artist smashed backboards, set them in resin, and welded them together in an aluminum circle.
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His employer was a certain subcontractor of Tepco, called Nito Resin.
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The piece itself was built from a wooden frame and then Jones and his team cast hundreds of swords out for fast cast resin.
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Snow-snakes were small rods of wood, polished smooth with resin, oil, or wax.
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Experiments continuing through several weeks were made in applying solutions of this resin to rats, rabbits and guinea pigs.
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An alcoholic solution of the resin was just neutralized with potassium hydroxide.
Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant: (Rhus Toxicodendron)|William Anderson Syme
An alcoholic solution of the resin gave the same color reactions with iron salts as did the potassium salt.
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On spontaneous evaporation of the solution, a yellow, sweet smelling resin was left.
Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant: (Rhus Toxicodendron)|William Anderson Syme