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Shellac is a resin secreted by the female lac bug to form a cocoon.

Date: 2010-01-04 03:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] don-fitch.livejournal.com
Howso "wrong", in your opinion? Not that I'm disputing the conclusion, but that shellac might more correctly be called "a resin-like material", and that scale insects produce a protective coating that seems more like a shell than like the fibrous material one commonly thinks of when "cocoon" is mentioned.

Date: 2010-01-04 03:56 pm (UTC)
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So was I, apparently.

Learn something new every day.

Date: 2010-01-04 06:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com
and check out where xanthan gum comes from!

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