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Green Play-Doh with can and accessory extruder
Play-Doh is a non-toxic compound similar in texture to bread dough that has been sold as a children's toy around the world for over half a century. Its exact makeup is a trade secret, but it is primarily a mixture of wheat flour, water, deodorized kerosene or another petroleum distillate (which provides the smooth texture), salt, a drying agent such as borax (which deters mold), an alum-based hardening agent, and colorings and perfume.
It is non-toxic, non-staining, and soluble in soapy water. When kept in a sealed container, Play-Doh remains pliable, but when exposed to air it hardens in about a day. However, because it tends to crack during hardening, it is not good for projects one wants to save.
Play-Doh was invented by Noah and Joseph McVicker in 1956 and awarded U.S. Patent 3,167,440 in 1965. One of many common products invented by accident, it was meant as a wallpaper cleaner. It was marketed by toy manufacturer Rainbow Crafts, and first sold at the Woodward & Lothrop department store in Washington, D.C.
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Objects made out of multi-color Play-doh
Play-Doh is available in several different colors and sizes, and has a distinctive smell and texture. Over 900 million pounds have been sold so far. The product is now owned by American toy giant Hasbro.
In 2006, the distinctive Play-Doh smell was turned into a limited-edition fragrance by the Demeter Fragrance Library to celebrate the product's 50th birthday. There is also a national Play-doh Day on September 18.
While Play-Doh is registered there are many different recipes for generic play doughs with various differences, such as to edibility, odor, or color. [1]
References
External links
- Hasbro's official Play-Doh site
- Who Invented Play-Doh
- The 50 Year History of Play-Doh
- How Stuff Works - Play-Doh
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Dough is a paste made out of any cereals (grains) or leguminous crops by mixing the flour with a small amount of water. This step is a precursor to making of breads, pasta, pastries, cookies, and muffins.
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An ingredient used in many foods, flour is a fine powder made by grinding cereals or other edible starchy plant seeds suitable for grinding. It is most commonly made from wheat—the word "flour" used without qualification implies wheatflour—but also maize (now called
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Water is a common chemical substance that is essential to all known forms of life.[1] In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form or state, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor.
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Kerosene, sometimes spelled kerosine in scientific and industrial usage,[1] is a flammable hydrocarbon liquid. The name is derived from Greek "keros" (κηρός wax).
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Petroleum (Latin Petroleum derived from Greek πέτρα (Latin petra) - rock + έλαιον (Latin oleum) - oil) or crude oil
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Distillate can refer to:
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- Herbal distillate
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Salt is a mineral essential for animal life, composed primarily of sodium chloride. Salt for human consumption is produced in different forms: unrefined salt (such as sea salt), refined salt (table salt), and iodized salt.
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Borax (from Persian burah[1][2]), also called sodium borate, or sodium tetraborate, or disodium tetraborate, is an important boron compound, a mineral, and a salt of boric acid.
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Molds (or moulds, see spelling differences) include all species of microscopic fungi that grow in the form of multicellular filaments, called hyphae.[1] In contrast, microscopic fungi that grow as single cells are called yeasts.
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- For alum meaning "graduate," see Alumnus.
Alum, (IPA: /ˈæləm/) (aluminium potassium sulfate,) in chemistry, is a term given to the crystallized double sulfates of the typical
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Simple Object Access Protocol, and lately also Service Oriented Architecture Protocol, but is now simply SOAP. The original acronym was dropped with Version 1.2 of the standard, which became a W3C Recommendation on June 24 2003, as it was considered to be misleading.
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patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a patentee for a fixed period of time in exchange for a disclosure of an invention.
The procedure for granting patents, the requirements placed on the patentee and the extent of the exclusive rights vary widely
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The procedure for granting patents, the requirements placed on the patentee and the extent of the exclusive rights vary widely
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Wallpaper is material which is used to cover and decorate the interior walls of homes, offices, and other buildings; it is one aspect of interior decoration. Wallpapers are usually sold in rolls and are put onto a wall using wallpaper paste.
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Woodward & Lothrop was an iconic department store chain headquartered in Washington, D.C. Woodies, as it was often nicknamed, maintained stores in the Mid-Atlantic United States.
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department store is a retail establishment which specializes in selling a wide range of products without a single predominant merchandise line. Department stores usually sell products including apparel, furniture, appliances, electronics, and additionally select other lines of
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Washington, D.C.
Flag
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Nickname: DC, The District
Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All)
Location of Washington, D.C.
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Seal
Nickname: DC, The District
Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All)
Location of Washington, D.C.
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"In God We Trust" (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum" ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
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"In God We Trust" (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum" ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
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toy is an object used in play. Toys are usually associated with children and pets, but it is not unusual for adult humans and some non-domesticated animals to play with toys.
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Hasbro, Inc
Public (NYSE: HAS )
Founded 1923[1]
Headquarters Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
Industry Toys and games
Revenue 3.151 Billion USD (2006)
Net income 230.1 Million USD (2006)
Employees 5,900 (2005)
Website www.hasbro.
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Public (NYSE: HAS )
Founded 1923[1]
Headquarters Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
Industry Toys and games
Revenue 3.151 Billion USD (2006)
Net income 230.1 Million USD (2006)
Employees 5,900 (2005)
Website www.hasbro.
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Perfume is a mixture of fragrant essential oils and aroma compounds, fixatives, and solvents used to give the human body, objects, and living spaces a pleasant smell.
The precise formulas of commercial perfumes are kept secret.
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Describing a perfume
The precise formulas of commercial perfumes are kept secret.
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Demeter Fragrance Library is a company that sells fragrances based on familiar, "everyday" scents, such as dirt, tomatoes, and chocolate chip cookies. The fragrances, according to founder Christopher Brosius, are intended to be an evocative, "idealized" representation of these
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