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Definition of Mexican lac

Mexican lac
, a scale-shaped insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bark, and exudes from the margin of her body this resinous substance. Note: Stick-lac is the substance in its natural state, incrusting small twigs. When broken off, and the coloring matter partly removed, the granular residuum is called seed-lac. When melted, and reduced to a thin crust, it is called shell-lac or shellac. Lac is an important ingredient in sealing wax, dyes, varnishes, and lacquers. Ceylon lac, a resinous exudation of the tree Croton lacciferum, resembling lac. Lac dye, a scarlet dye obtained from stick-lac. Lac lake, the coloring matter of lac dye when precipitated from its solutions by alum. Mexican lac, an exudation of the tree Croton Draco.

Meaning of Mexican lac from wikipedia

- Lac is the resinous secretion of a number of species of lac insects, of which the most commonly cultivated is Kerria lacca. Cultivation begins when a...
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- Operation LAC (Large Area Coverage) was a United States Army Chemical Corps operation which dis****d microscopic zinc cadmium sulfide (ZnCdS) particles...
- whose body was discovered on November 23, 2008, near Campbellsport, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. Her body remained unidentified for 13 years before investigators...
- America and the Caribbean (LAC) is an English-language acronym referring to the Latin American and the Caribbean region. The term LAC covers an extensive region...
- (high). In India s****ac derived from insect lac was used since ancient times. S****ac is the secretion of the lac bug (Tachardia lacca Kerr. or Laccifer lacca)...
- country, including 79% coverage of the solar disc in Mexico City. Torreón was the most populous Mexican city in the path of totality. In the United States...
- structure. Along with eCOM-LAC (Federation of Latin-America and the Caribbean for the Internet and Electronic Commerce), NIC Mexico proposed .lat as a generic...
- - Wisconsin La Moine River - Illinois La Plata River - Colorado, New Mexico Lac qui Parle River - Minnesota Lackawanna River - Pennsylvania Lackawaxen...
- Library and Archives Canada (LAC; French: Bibliothèque et Archives Canada) is the federal institution, tasked with acquiring, preserving, and providing...