Chapopote
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
- ↑ Cultura Olmeca. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 10, 2010 ; accessed on June 18, 2019 .
- ↑ German Society for Fat Research, German Society for Fat Science, Fats, Soaps, Paints, Volumes 5-6
- ↑ 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
- ^ Johann Andreas Buchner, Achille Richard, Ernst Friedrich Glocker, Complete epitome of pharmacy in their ..., Volume 1; Volume 4
- ↑ Georg Friederici, Americanist dictionary and auxiliary dictionary for the Americanist, p. 165