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Plumbago   Listen
noun
Plumbago  n.  
1.
(Min.) Same as Graphite.
2.
(Bot.) A genus of herbaceous plants with pretty salver-shaped corollas, usually blue or violet; leadwort.





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"Plumbago" Quotes from Famous Books



... scattered around in various directions. Crucibles, alembics, and retorts were confusedly piled in various corners, and on a small table I saw distributed in separate bottles a number of mineral and metallic substances, which I recognized as antimony, mercury, plumbago, arsenic, borax, etc. It was veritably the apartment of a poor chemist. All the apparatus had the air of being second-hand. There was no luster of exquisitely annealed glass and highly polished metals, such as dazzles one in the laboratory ...
— Stories by Modern American Authors • Julian Hawthorne


Words linked to "Plumbago" :   atomic number 6, graphite, pencil lead, black lead, herbaceous plant, lead, genus Plumbago, Plumbago europaea, pencil


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