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Linseed oil

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Flax-seed drying oil of European painting. Not walnut-oil, and not resin varnish.

Also known as Linseed Oil

  • Linseed oil is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats linseed and its oil among flax preparations entering remedies and related applications. A Roman-era pharmacological use of flax oil, not olive oil already walked and not later painter’s medium alone.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    used in · sourced · documented

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