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Castor oil is extremely versatile and unique in its composition. Castor oil consists for 90% of the unsaturated C:18 ricinoleic fatty acid. It is a major source of sebacic acid.
Castor oil and its derivatives have major applications in the manufacturing of soaps, lubricants, hydraulic and brake fluids, paints, dyes, coating s, inks, cold resistant plastics, waxes and polishes, nylon, pharmaceuticals and perfumes.
The poisonThis article is about the dangerous substance. For the band see Poison. skull and crossbones symbol traditionally used to label a poisonous substance. In the context of biology, poisons are substances that cause injury, illness, or death to organisms, usu ricinThe protein ricin (pronounced rye-sin is a poison manufactured from the castor bean Ricinus communis . Ricin can be extracted from castor beans and is known to have an average lethal dose of 0. 2 milligrams (1/5,000th of a gram). It is considered to be tw is made from the byproducts in the manufacture of castor oil.
About 1% of the global castor oil production goes into medical or health store products. It is used to ease constipationConstipation is a condition of the digestive system where a person (or other animal) experiences difficulty in eliminating feces. Some of the main causes of constipation include: Constriction, where part of the intestine or rectum is narrowed or blocked, and as an emetic to induce vomiting. Consumption of large amounts of castor oil (below lethal doses, such as one bottle) can induce laborChildbirth (also called labour birth or parturition is the culmination of pregnancy, the emergence of a child from its mother's uterus. It can be considered the opposite of death, as it is the beginning of a person's life. Age is defined relative to this in near-term pregnantPregnancy is the process by which a mammalian female carries a live offspring from conception until it develops to the point where the offspring is capable of living outside the womb. It starts with conception, the process of fertilization to form a zygot women. It is notorious for its strong taste, which was for many years a standard gag in comic stripThis article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. There is a separate article about The Comic Strip, the British comedy group. A comic strip is a short strip or sequence of drawings, telling a ss and Our Gang film shorts .
In Fascist Italy under the regeme of Benito Mussolini, castor oil was one of the tools of the blackshirts. Political dissidents would be force-fed large dosages of castor oil by the Fascist thugs. This technique was said to have been originated by Gabriele D'Annunzio. Victims of this treatment would experience severe diarrhea and dehydration, often resulting in death.
Sometimes when the blackshirts wished to make sure that the victim would die rather than simply be badly disabled, they would mix gasoline with the castor oil.
It came to be said that Mussolini's power was backed by "the bludgeon and castor oil".
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