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    Dover's powder (a.k.a. pulvis ipecacuanhae et opii) was a medicine against cold and fever. Developed in 1732 by English physician Thomas Dover, the powder...
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  • physician. He is remembered for his common cold and fever medicine Dover's powder, his work with the poor in Bristol, and his privateering voyage alongside...
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    Gunpowder (redirect from Black powder)
    Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive. It consists of...
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    [citation needed] For instance, ipecac and opium were used to produce Dover's powder, which was used in syrup form.[citation needed] In 1965, the Food and...
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    used to induce sweating. A common preparation for this purpose was Dover's powder. In the 19th century, women prisoners at the Cascades Female Factory...
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    liquid preparation for children; Black-drop, a stronger preparation; and Dover's powder. Opium became a major colonial commodity, moving legally and illegally...
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    Powder diffraction is a scientific technique using X-ray, neutron, or electron diffraction on powder or microcrystalline samples for structural characterization...
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    Department established the Dover Powder Depot on September 6, 1880. Four days later, it changed the name to the "Picatinny Powder Depot", "after the Lenape-named...
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    opioid antagonists and inverse agonists. B&O Supprettes Diascordium Dover's powder Kendal Black Drop Laudanum Mithridate Opium Polish heroin (Compote, Kompot)...
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    contained sodium bicarbonate, Dover's powder, lung balsam, ferric subsulfate solution, zinc ointment, cascara, zinc oxide powder, formalin throat tablets,...
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    • Dalby's Carminative • Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup • Dover's powder • Paregoric...
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    compositus (Dover's powder) 10 per cent opium in powder; 10 per cent ipecacuanha root (currently used to produce syrup of ipecac, an emetic), in powder well...
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    preening. Rather, powder down feathers are spread across the body. These have a tendency to disintegrate, and the powder, akin to talcum powder, helps maintain...
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  • Dove also produces other chocolate products including ready-to-drink chocolate milk, hot chocolate powder, chocolate cakes, ice cream and more. Dove is...
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    Imagination Novel of the Iron Maid The Recluse of Bayswater Novel of the White Powder Strange Occurrence in Clerkenwell History of the Young Man with Spectacles...
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    1880 when it was established as the Dover Powder Depot, before being renamed just days later as the Picatinny Powder Depot. With 5,000 employees and covering...
    77 KB (8,558 words) - 06:23, 28 July 2024
  • Hickey as Garda Pat Flynn Niall Tóibín as Sergeant O'Casey Barry Keegan as Powder O'Ryan Emmet Bergin as Paddy Robert Rietti as Irish airport TV reporter...
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    each D-846 powder canister were the words, "Warning: Do Not Use with 2,700-pound projectiles." D-846 powder burned faster than normal powder, which meant...
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  • Cold-Food Powder (Chinese: 寒食散; pinyin: hánshísǎn; Wade–Giles: han-shih-san) or Five Minerals Powder (Chinese: 五石散; pinyin: wǔshísǎn; Wade–Giles: wu-shih-san)...
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    and hood systems; and flexible powder-containment solutions for the pharmaceutical industry.[citation needed] ILC Dover initially formed as a branch of...
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