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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In gunpowder-manuf., incorporated cake, or mill-cake, ready for granulation.
  • noun In the manufacture of fatty acids for candles, the residual cake of stearic and palmitic acids from which the ‘red oil’ or oleic acid has been removed by pressure.

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