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Plumbago

noun
1.
Used as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors.  Synonyms: black lead, graphite.
2.
Any plumbaginaceous plant of the genus Plumbago.



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"Plumbago" Quotes from Famous Books



... When any substance was introduced into this arch, it instantly became ignited; platina melted as readily in it as wax in a common candle; quartz, the sapphire, magnesia, lime, all entered into fusion; fragments of diamond and points of charcoal and plumbago seemed to evaporate in it, even when the connection was made in the receiver of an air-pump; but there was no evidence of their having previously undergone fusion. When the communication between the points positively ...
— A History of Science, Volume 3(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams



Words linked to "Plumbago" :   herbaceous plant, pencil lead, carbon, c, pencil, graphite, herb, lead, atomic number 6



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