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Caranday—A source of palm wax

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Millions of these palm trees in the Gran Chaco of central South America, occupying parts of Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay, offer an unexploited commercial source of a hard vegetable wax, potentially as great as that of carnauba palm in northeastern Brazil.

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  1. Klare S. Markley

    Present address: Foreign Operations Administration, I.I.A.A., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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  1. Institute of Inter-American Affairs, Asunción, Paraguay

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Reprinted from the Journal of the American Oil Chemists Society 30: 309- 313. 1953, with extensive revisions by the author and the editor.

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Markley, K.S. Caranday—A source of palm wax . Econ Bot 9, 39–52 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02984958

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