Tabasheer from stem - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 34289 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 200.00 POACEAE Bambusa bambos | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Tabasheer from stem | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Tabasheer from stem | Geography Description | Maharashtra, Asia-Tropical, Indian Subcontinent, India, Bombay | ||
| Uses | Tabasheer from stemUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | India Museum | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: No. 204. Tabasheer, a siliceous concretion found inside the stems, at the joints of Bambusa arundinacea Retz., the Spiny Bamboo, and probably other species of Bamboo. It consists of irregularly shaped fragments of an opaque white or bluish, opalescent colour, the largest pieces are sometimes about an inch in diam. In its raw state it is usually blackened and dirty, having apparently been obtained by burning the bamboos, for use it is calcined, when it becomes quite clean. It is largely used, in India as a medicine. Dr Dickie, Aberdeen 1881 : Tabasheer - Hydrated silica, like Hydrophane a variety of opal. The least refractive of all known solids, for yellow ray? = 1.15. Van Torringon? a Dutch chemist found for a specimen to consist of 89.3g si, lica soluble in potash, 0.2 feric oxide, 0.24 lime, 4.81 Potash, 0.51 organic matter, 7.63 water. | ||||
| Determinations: | 200.00 POACEAE Bambusa arundinacea Retz. 200.00 POACEAE Bambusa bambos (L.) Voss | ||||