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I’m an apple farmer — how the wax on your fruit really gets there, you shouldn’t be scared
Thornton listed three of the most common waxes used to replace the apple’s natural cuticle: beeswax, carnauba wax from the leaves of the carnauba palm tree, and shellac, which comes the resin ...
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Self-cleaning perovskite solar cell based on leek leaves-like film achieves 14.2% efficiency
the scientists added a bio-based carnauba wax (CW), which is reportedly the hardest natural wax with the highest melting point among commercial vegetable waxes. The leek leaf replicas were then ...