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New uses for Seaweed

United Kingdom, 1953
film

A brief account of the uses to which alginates, which are obtained from seaweed, are being put - from foodstuffs to toothpaste. A fine synthetic fibre, spun f..

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Life from the sea

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The Fibre web

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Textiles

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Simple plants: the algae

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A World of difference

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New ways with wool

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Living tomorrow. No. 102

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Manufacture of soap

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Our clothes

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