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unusual facts about starch



Aché people

Although random transects show a high density of palms in the Mbaracayú region of Paraguay, most of these do not contain starch.

Alpha-neurotoxin

The term α-neurotoxin was coined by C.C. Chang, who designated the postsynaptic bungarotoxin with the α- prefix because it happened to be slowest moving of the bungarotoxins under starch zone electrophoresis.

Chocolate pudding

There are two main types: a boiled then chilled, texturally a custard set with starch, version commonly eaten in the U.S., Canada, Sweden, and East and South East Asia; and a steamed/baked, texturally similar to cake, version that is popular in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.

Clostridium

C. acetobutylicum, also known as the Weizmann organism, was first used by Chaim Weizmann to produce acetone and biobutanol from starch in 1916 for the production of gunpowder and TNT.

Clostridium acetobutylicum

Clostridium acetobutylicum, ATCC 824, is a commercially valuable bacterium sometimes called the "Weizmann Organism", after Jewish-Russian-born Chaim Weizmann, then senior lecturer at the University of Manchester, England, used them in 1916 as a bio-chemical tool to produce at the same time, jointly, acetone, ethanol, and butanol from starch.

Denis Williams

His observation that the methods employed by the Warao for processing palm starch are preadapted for eliminating the poison from bitter manioc offers a reasonable explanation for the origin of this remarkable technology.

Desizing

Amylases are the enzymes that hydrolyses and reduce the molecular weight of amylose and amylopectin molecules in starch, rendering it water soluble enough to be washed off the fabric.

Florida arrowroot

The toxin can however be removed by careful leaching, and the roots and half-buried stems of this cycad were used by Native American people (notably the Tequesta and Mayaimi Indians, the Seminole Indians and the Maroons) to produce this starch.

Iceland moss

It forms a nutritious and easily digested amylaceous food, being used in place of starch in some preparations of cocoa.

Jacob Holm

In 1805 he constructed an oil mill at Christianshavn and from 1808 to 1811 acquired several smaller lots along Amager Road where he set up various manufacturies, producing glue, candles, oil, starch, powder and ship sails.

Kyjuan

As well as appearing as a guest on Murph's solo project Murphy's Law and each of Nelly's CDs and other fellow St. Lunatics Ali (rapper), and his solo project Heavy Starch.

Mash ingredients

Buckwheat and quinoa, while not grains, both contain high levels of available starch and protein, while containing no gluten.

Paper chemicals

Co-Binders, natural products such as starch and also CMC (Carboxymethyl cellulose), are used along with the synthetic binders, like styrene acrylic or styrene butadiene.

Potato starch

Potato starch was also used in one of the earlier color photography processes, the Lumière brothers' Autochrome Lumière, until the arrival of colour film in the mid-1930s.

Pyrophorus

In early use, the term was applied specifically to Homberg's pyrophorus, a substance made by heating alum with lampblack, flour, starch, or sugar.

Reactive flash volatilization

Reactive flash volatilization of solid particles composed of cellulose, starch, lignin, Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) wood chips, and polyethylene was demonstrated in 2007 in the scientific journal Angewandte Chemie.

Roquette Freres

Founded and headquartered in Lestrem, France in 1933 by the brothers Dominique and Germain Roquette, Roquette has grow to become the leader in starch production in Europe and the number four ranked producer of starch worldwide.

Swats

Sowans, is a Scottish dish made using the starch remaining on the inner husks of oats after milling

The Roar of Jefferson Airplane

John Barbata – drums on "Long John Silver" and "Eat Starch Mom"

William Henry Perkin, Jr.

The conflict with Chaim Weizmann, who held a postdoctoral position and was a friend of Perkin, over the fermentation of starch to isoamyl alcohol which was the starting material for synthetic rubber and therefore industrially relevant, led to the dismissal of Weizmann.


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