NOUN
- gum from an acacia tree; used as a thickener (especially in candies and pharmaceuticals)
How To Use gum arabic In A Sentence
- Take of paregoric, liquorice and gum arabic, each an ounce, from fifty to one hundred drops of antimonial wine and two gills of hot water; mix them well together, and when cold, bottle, and cork it tight; take two tea-spoonsful at a time; if it should nauseate, give a smaller quantity. Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
- GUM ARABIC: This is obtained from the acacia tree. Chapter 6
- Another method was to allow the powder to sediment out of a viscous solution of gum arabic, leaving only the very finest particles in suspension.
- -- Six parts Persian Blue, one quart Oxalic Acid; triturate with little Water to smoothe paste, add Gum Arabic and the necessary quantity of Water. One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed
- -- Take three cents 'worth of liquorice, three of rock candy, three of gum arabic, and put them into a quart of water; simmer them till thoroughly dissolved, then add three cents' worth paregoric, and a like quantity of antimonial wine. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
- Make your own glair using ingredients such as egg, water, sugar and gum arabic.
- Next, add the Gum Arabic mixture into a cup of hot water. Stir using a spoon until the granules of gum have turned into a thick, treacly jam-like consistency.
- In order to analyse the relevance of the epicuticular wax to the overall transpiration barrier, the epicuticular layer was selectively removed with gum arabic.
- This gum arabic may be regarded as nearly pure arabin (as calcium and potassium, etc., salt). Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891
- In its broadest sense this term denotes painting done in pigments bound with a medium (generally gum arabic) which is soluble in water.
