Chemistry:Diapalma
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In pharmacology, diapalma (from Lat dia, "made of" + palma, "palm"[1]) is a desiccating or drying plaster, named for the wood of the palm tree, from which the spatula is made that is used to stir the mixture while boiling.[2] It was formerly composed of common oil, hogs-fat, and litharge of gold;[2] or also of palm oil, litharge, and zinc sulfate. Now, it is made of white wax, emplastrum simplex, and sulfate of zinc.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 diapalma (3rd ed.), Oxford University Press, September 2005, http://oed.com/search?searchType=dictionary&q=diapalma (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chambers, Ephraim, ed (1728). "article name needed". Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (first ed.). James and John Knapton, et al.
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