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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



... magnetic attraction—is a property of ore which has as yet been made available to only a very slight extent as the basis of a system of separation. If a quantity of mixed fragments of glass and plumbago be pounded together in a mortar with only a moderate degree of pressure, so as to avoid, as far as possible, the breaking of the glass, there will soon come a stage at which the softer material ...
— Twentieth Century Inventions - A Forecast • George Sutherland


Words linked to "Plumbago" :   Plumbago europaea, genus Plumbago, lead, carbon, atomic number 6, black lead, pencil lead, herb


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