Irish variety

In the pharmaceutical field, agar is commonly the base colloid for stabilizing mineral oil in water emulsions, used for laxative purposes. The concentration of agar is kept below the gel point, so that the emulsion will pour. Other gums, like tragacanth, Irish moss extract, or carboxymethylcellulose, may replace the agar, where desired. Usually, from 0.5 to 0.8% of the gum, based upon the weight of the aqueous phase, suffices to protect this type of emulsion, which is somewhat of a neutral variety. 

Typical Results. Using the National Association of British and Irish Millers (NABIM) classifications, typical results for flour milled from British wheat varieties are shown below in Figures 1 -4 and Table 1. 

Magnesium hydroxide (mag-NEE-zee-um hye-DROK-side) is a white powder with no odor, found in nature as the mineral brucite. Perhaps the best known form of the compound is a milky liquid known as milk of magnesia, a product used to treat upset stomach and constipation. Milk of magnesia was invented in 1817 by the Irish pharmacist Sir James Murray (1788-1871). Murray built a plant to produce a mixture of magnesium hydroxide in water that he sold for the treatment of a variety of ailments, including heartburn, stomach acidity, bladder and bowel problems, and female problems. He said that the liquid mixture was much more effective than powdery magnesium hydroxide which had previously been used for the same purposes. 

Asexually reproduced varieties including cultivated sports, mutants, hybrids and newly found seedlings, other than a tuber propagated plant or plant found in an uncultivated state, that is, according to the legislative history, the Irish potato and Jerusalem artichoke varieties, may be protected under the 1930 Plant Patent Act or PPA by a plant patent issued by the Patent and Trademark Office. By judicial interpretation, bacteria are also precluded from protection under the Plant Patent Act. Protection for a 17 year term is provided against the unauthorized asexual reproduction of the plant, or use or sale of the plant. 

Distillation is a ubiquitous process, used for a huge variety of chemical separations. In the popular imagination, it is associated with the production of ethanol. Wine is distilled to make brandy beer is distilled to make whiskey and corn mash is distilled to make gin, vodka and other white spirits. Distillation originated in efforts to increase the alcohol concentration of wine, thus making the wine more stable to heat. Many cultures seem to have been involved the stills shown on the labels of Irish whiskey bottles are aliqui-taras, a form of Spanish still based on designs by the Moors, who are believed to have gotten their ideas from the Chinese. 

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