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Grahamite, also
known as
Pyrobitumen or Anthraxolite, is a bitumen-impregnated rock (asphaltite). It is a
naturally occurring solid hydrocarbon bitumen...
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founder of the
Battle Cr**** Sanitarium.
Grahamite boarding-houses were
established in the 1830s. The
Grahamites applied dietetic and
hygienic principles...
- 1826–1837
cholera pandemic.: 15–27 : 29–35 His
followers were
called Grahamites and
formed one of the
first vegetarian movements in America;
graham flour...
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Impson Valley was
later reclassified as
grahamite,
based on
solubility and
chemical similarities with the type
grahamite of West Virginia. Impsonite: Definition...
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women to his precepts.
After his
death in 1851, his followers,
dubbed "
Grahamites", most of them
being women but also
including famous men such as John...
- Church,
preached vegetarianism. He and
Sylvester Graham, the
mentor of the
Grahamites and
inventor of the
Graham crackers, were
among the
founders of the American...
- was
convinced of the
potential of
asphalt paving. As
president of the
Grahamite Asphalt Pavement Company, he
began studying the
existing product and procedures...
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Venezuelan heavy oils, La Brea tar pits) to
solid (e.g. gilsonite, ozocerite,
grahamite, impsonite).
Pyrobitumen is
formed by
thermal decomposition and molecular...
- 1877 they were
replaced with rock from 1st to 6th
Streets NW, and with
grahamite asphalt from 6th to 15th
Streets NW. The
avenue was
repaved in 1890 and...
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Historian Stephen Nissenbaum has
noted "it is
clear that Shew was a
Grahamite before he
discovered the water-cure". Shew and his wife were vegetarian...
