Apricot pits

The other significant production method for natural benzaldehyde involves the steam distillation of bitter almond oil which has been derived from the kernels of fmit such as apricots, peaches, cherries, plums, or pmnes. The benzaldehyde product obtained in this fashion is claimed to have a superior flavor profile. The use of peach and apricot pits to produce the more profitable product laettile apparently affects the supply available to natural benzaldehyde producers. 

Powdery Dynamites are rendered cohesive by incorporating small quantities of polybutenes. E.g. NG 6.0, AN 80.4, Na nitrate 5.0, woodpulp 2.0, fine apricot-pit pulp 4.1,... 

Butene Polymer Dynamite A cohesive, nonsifting Dynamite was prepd from NG 6, AN 80.4, NaN03 5, woodpuip 2, fine apricot-pit pulp 4.1, yel com flour 1.5, chalk 0.5 0.5% of a soln contg 7.5% polybutene(solid rubber of mw 80,000) in liq polybutene(viscosity 154 Saybolt Universal seconds at 210°FXRef). Other formulations of powdery cohesive Dynamites are also given... 

Absorbents, wood pulp (sawdust), wood flour (very fine sawdust), apricot pits, ground coarse or fine, com flour (very fine com meal), bagasse (sugar cane pitch), oat hulls, white starch (usually com ormilo), chalk, zinc oxide, ground coal, charcoal, sulfur, and lampblack. 

Benzaldehyde can be produced by hydrolysis of amygdalin, a glucoside present in the kernels of bitter almonds and in apricot pits. The fonnation of... 

Many flavors involve sugar glycosides. Two familiar ones are cinnamon and vanilla, in which the sugars bond to cinnamaldehyde (3-phenyl-2-propenal) and vanillin, respectively. Both of these compounds are aromatic aldehydes. The distinctive taste of the kernel in a peach or apricot pit (a bitter-almond flavor) is due to laetrile, a controversial substance suggested as a cancer treatment by some. 

Cyanide poisoning has been reported8 from eating chokecherries, bitter almonds, and apricot pits. In addition, cyanide is found in lima beans and cassava beans and roots. Cassava is a staple in certain countries and is blamed for the high incidence of tropical ataxic neuropathy in those areas. 

Apricot pits are the most common source of amygdalin. 

Definition Powder ground from the seed of the apricot fruit, Prunus armeniaca Toxicology The seed kernel contains cyanogenetic glycosides ing. may cause delayed systemic effects ind. abdominal pain, vomiting, lethargy, and coma ing. of apricot pits can be fatal Uses Abrasive in cosmetics Features Natural... 

For more thorough flash removal, the tumbling action may be augmented by a blast of moderately abrasive material, or media, either an organic type (such as ground walnut shells or apricot pits) or a polymeric type (such as small pellets of nylon or polycarbonate) directed against the tumbling parts. 

Peach and apricot pits are a natural source of the cyanohydrin derivative amygdalin. 

Laetrile, or amygdalin, is a natural substance obtained from apricot pits, which its advocates claim to have cancer preventive and controlling effects. Dr. Ernest Krebs, Sr., who was the first to use Laetrile therapeutically in this country, considered it to be an essential vitamin and called it vitamin B-l 7. 

HISTORY. Laetrile was first extracted from apricot pits in the early 19005, and first used as a therapy for cancer in the United States in the 1920s. 

Shell fibers Almond, apricot pit, nut (Brazil, candle), coconut, filbert, pecan, walnut... 

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