Chapopote

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Chapapote is in the Bay of Campeche from asphalt volcanoes emerging asphalt .

It has been used as a material in Mexico since the pre-Columbian period . The name is a corruption of Tzaucpopochtli , a Nahuatl god, whose name is composed of the components Tzacutli for paste and Popochtli for perfume .

Chapopote was also traded as Manjak or Munjak . The merivale manjak was used for paints and varnishes and the emptage manjak for waterproofing.

In the modern Castilian is Chapopote a synonym for oil spill .

Individual evidence

  1. Cultura Olmeca. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 10, 2010 ; accessed on June 18, 2019 .
  2. German Society for Fat Research, German Society for Fat Science, Fats, Soaps, Paints, Volumes 5-6
  3. then the Munjak, which is ejected in the Champechebay in Mexico. Carl Caesar von Leonhard, Handbuch der Oryktognosie: for academic lectures and for self-study
  4. ^ Johann Andreas Buchner, Achille Richard, Ernst Friedrich Glocker, Complete epitome of pharmacy in their ..., Volume 1; Volume 4
  5. Georg Friederici, Americanist dictionary and auxiliary dictionary for the Americanist, p. 165