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Before composite plastic was used, bowls were made from a hardwood material, usually "lignumvitae".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Vegetation ranges from short forbs, grasses and sedges to tall tussock grass, extensive legume thickets, with bluebush,lignumand belalie swamps.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The few small waterholes are fringed bylignum, belalie and coolibahs.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Each of the turbines has three water-lubricatedlignumvitae wood bearings in the turbine chamber and an oil-bath bearing in the generator hall.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is a smallish round thick wooden (usuallylignumvitae) disc with one or more holes through it, perpendicular to the plane of the disc.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Other habitats include acacia and cypress pine scrubs and woodlands, stony ground and sandhills, andlignum, saltbush and samphire.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Much of the rest of the property consists of flat alluvial plains with mallee woodlands, chenopod shrublands, semi-arid grasslands and ephemerallignumwetlands.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Water drunk from such cups, as well as imported powders and extracts from "lignumnephriticum", were thought to have great medicinal properties.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The sheaves of blocks on sailing vessels were made oflignumvitae until the introduction of modern synthetics.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The historical material for this was the tropical hardwood timber,lignumvitae.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Developed from the anchor escapement, it was almost frictionless, requiring no lubrication because the pallets were made fromlignumvitae.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The clock still works and like his previous clocks has a wooden movement of oak andlignumvitae.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The pit wheel is cast iron with 96lignumvitae cogs.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Due tolignumvitae's toughness, it can also be used as a lap in the process of cutting gems.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Cups made from "lignumnephriticum" were given as gifts to royalty.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Various other hardwoods may also be calledlignumvitae and should not be confused with it.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Lignumoften appears leafless as the leaves are produced on younger growth but soon die off, especially in dry conditions.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He deduced that "lignumnephriticum" actually came from two species of trees that became confused as one.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thickets, saltbush, bluebush,lignum, open pastoral country, among dead trees and stumps.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Special heavy bails made of denser wood (usuallylignumvitae) are sometimes used in windy conditions if the normal light bails are likely to be blown off the stumps.
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