Technology, Industry, and Agriculture

Tanning

A process of preserving animal hides by chemical treatment (using vegetable tannins, metallic sulfates, and sulfurized phenol compounds, or syntans) to make them immune to bacterial attack, and subsequent treatments with fats and greases to make them pliable. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 5th ed)

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A process of preserving animal hides by chemical treatment (using vegetable tannins, metallic sulfates, and sulfurized phenol compounds, or syntans) to make them immune to bacterial attack, and subsequent treatments with fats and greases to make them pliable. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 5th ed)

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  • Tannings

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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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do not confuse with SUNTANNING see SUNBATHING

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  1. J01.576w.852w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Tanning. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D013633. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D013633
  2. Tanning. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanning_(leather)
  3. Tanning. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q211578