Tannins were once believed to function as anti-herbivore defenses, but more and more ecologists now recognize them as important controllers of decomposition and nitrogen cycling processes.

Tannins can also precipitate proteins and inhibit the absorption of nutrients.

Condensed Tannins are also present in Lotus Corniculatus, which has been known to increase the protein absorbtion of the small intestine.

Tannins have molecular weights ranging from 500 to over 3, 000 ( gallic acid esters ) and up to 20, 000 ( proanthocyanidins ).

Tannins leaching from an unprepared driftwood decoration in an aquarium can cause pH lowering and coloring of the water to a tea-like tinge.

Tannins are obtained from the tree's bark.

Tannins are normally derived from the skins, seeds, and stems of the grapes themselves ( leeched out during the maceration process ) or from contact with oak during barrel aging.

Tannins are incompatible with alkalis, gelatin, heavy metals, iron, limewater, metallic salts, strong oxidizing agents and zinc sulfate, since they form complexes and precipitate in aqueous solution.

Tannins are distributed in species throughout the plant kingdom.

Tannins are mainly physically located in the vacuoles or surface wax of plants.

Tannins are classified as ergastic substances, i. e., non-protoplasm materials found in cells.

Tannins are found in leaf, bud, seed, root, and stem tissues.

Tannins may help regulate the growth of these tissues.

Tannins bind to the collagen proteins in the hide and coat them causing them to become less water-soluble, and more resistant to bacterial attack.

Tannins are phenolic compounds that are commonly found in plants.

Tannins are separated into two classes: hydrolysable tannins and condensed tannins.

Tannins can be removed by soaking chopped acorns in several changes of water, until water no longer turns brown.

Tannins add a gritty texture and chalky, astringent taste.

Tannins react with proteins.

Tannins are found in some red wines and teas.

The Ramirez brothers were also along.

Wet also were the marine's fatigues and the face had an oily film.

Capable of enduring friendships, they were also stout controversialists, who could write with a drop of vitriol on their pens.

We can also argue that the three brothers Karamazov and Smerdyakov were the external representatives of an internal conflict within one man, Dostoevsky, a conflict having to do with father-murder and the wish to possess the father's woman.

The discoid shapes of sun and moon were also felt to indicate the shape of celestial things.

Both these youths, who greatly admired Henrietta, were somewhat younger than she, as were also the neighboring Friedenwald boys, who were then studying medicine ; ;

A good deal of English was spoken on the beach, most educated Greeks learn it in childhood, and there were also American wives and children of our overseas servicemen.

Besides being political allies, they were also friends.

as Pike proved himself adept in the political arena, he also became a social lion in the village of Little Rock, where he served as a symbol of the culture that the ladies of the town were striving so eagerly to cultivate.

The English, relying on a prejudiced arbiter and confronted with superior diplomatic skill, were also hampered in their negotiations by the events that were taking place at home.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

He also ascertained that many officers were indifferent to the problem, including Commanding General Frederick Funston who gave Fosdick the nickname of `` Reverend ''.

A. M. Wergeland called the Adams method literally antihistorical, while Clive Day maintained that the assumptions were not confined to theories alone but were also applicable to straight factual evidence.

we were also literary ; ;

Granted that the Tammany name and the Tammany tiger often were regarded as badges of political shame, the sachems of the Hall also have a few good marks to their credit.

He and other Soviet leaders responsible for the document were proud of having brought forward some new formulas, such as the early replacement of the dictatorship of the proletariat by an `` All People's State '', and also of having laid down the lines for a much greater `` democratization '' of the whole hierarchy of Soviets, starting with the Supreme Soviet itself.

And if the foreigners fighting in the Katanga Army are mercenaries then Lafayette and Von Steuben were mercenaries too, as were also the members of the Lafayette Escadrille in the early part of World War 1, and of Chennault's Flying Tigers in the early days of World War 2.

There were also a couple in Canada, and several in England.

It is also significant that neither this report nor the hearing officer's notes were furnished to the appeal board.

But as you can also see, it's not a painful exercise at all, because Henri De Courcy -- the `` happy '' bodybuilder -- looks as though he were having the time of his life!!

( 2 ) The conjugates as well as the intermediate sera were absorbed for 30 minutes with 20 - 50 mg of proteins extracted from healthy sweet clover stems.

The proteins were extracted with 3 volumes of Af in Af to give a nearly neutral extract and precipitated by 80% saturation with Af.

Gums were extracted from quince, psyllium ( fleawort ), flax, and locust ( carob ) seeds in ancient times.

But the first undoubted Aegean remains reported from it were a few objects extracted from Cnossus by Minos Kalokhairinos of Candia in 1878.

Bundaberg Rum originated because the local sugar mills had a problem with what to do with the waste molasses after the sugar was extracted ( it was heavy, difficult to transport and the costs of converting it to stock feed were rarely worth the effort ).

Another example can be found in the 1962 short story Epilogue by Poul Anderson, in which self-replicating factory barges were proposed that used minerals extracted from ocean water as raw materials.

License fees for distributing and projecting films were extracted from all distributors and exhibitors.

The Soviets extracted about 23 % of the East German GNP for reparations, while in the West reparations were a minor factor.

Up until the mid-3rd century, the Roman state ’ s payments appear to have been unbalanced, with far more products sent to Britain, to support its large military force ( which had reached c. 53, 000 by the mid-2nd century ), than were extracted from the island.

Before the steam engine, pits were often shallow bell pits following a seam of coal along the surface, which were abandoned as the coal was extracted.

Although many kinds of minerals were extracted throughout the country, most mineral resources had to be imported in the postwar era.

Testimony from children in the case was extracted by Laurie and Joseph Braga, a husband-and-wife team who resorted to coercive questioning of the alleged victims when the desired answers were not forthcoming.

The Jews, who held a vulnerable position in medieval England, protected only by the king, were subject to huge taxes ; £ 44, 000 was extracted from the community by the tallage of 1210 ; much of it was passed on to the Christian debtors of Jewish moneylenders.

Initially, many metals were obtained through open-pit mining, and ore was primarily extracted from shallow depths, rather than though the digging of deep mine shafts.

Amber, fur and salt ( extracted in Kuyavia and around Kołobrzeg ) were exported to other countries, while cloth, crafts, tools and ornaments were imported.

One Argentine company, whose owner had purchased 15 percent of the immense Chaco region, processed massive quantities of tannin, which were extracted from the bark of the Chaco's ubiquitous quebracho ( break-axe ) hardwood.

Alexander VII confirmed that they were too, by the bull Ad Sanctam Beati Petri Sedem ( 16 October 1656 ) declaring that five propositions extracted by a group of theologians from the Sorbonne out of Jansen's work, mostly concerning grace and the fallen nature of man, were heretical, including the proposition according to which to say " that Christ died, or shed His blood for all men " would be a semipelagian error.

Passwords were stored in cleartext in the database and were extracted through a SQL Injection vulnerability.

This is thought to date back to early times in the quarrying industry, where piles of extracted stone ( not fit for sale ) were built into tall rough walls ( to save space ) directly behind the working quarry face ; the rabbit's natural tendency to burrow would weaken these " walls " and cause collapse, often resulting in injuries or even death.

These figures were extracted through an analysis of the papers contained within the MEDLINE database.

Tribute extracted from the neighbors and war booty added to the royal treasury, giving rise to the saying that " the peasants were like nobles, the nobles like princes, and the princes like kings.